Locus of Care

Peregrine Horden, Richard Smith

• Introduction, Peregrine Horden, Richard Smith; Part 1 Informal Care: From Ethnography to Ancient History, Sandra Burman, Patricia van der Spuy; Chapter 1 Household Care and Informal Networks, Peregrine Horden; Part 2 Networks and Institutions in Western Europe c. 1500–c. 1800, Sandra Burman, Patricia van der Spuy; Chapter 2 Networks of Care in Elizabethan English Towns, Marjorie K. McIntosh; Chapter 3 Family Obligations and Inequalities in Access to Care in Northern Italy, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Sandra Cavallo; Chapter 4 Self-Help and Reciprocity in Parish Assistance, Martin Dinges; Chapter 5 Community Sponsorship and the Hospital Patient in Late Eighteenth-Century England, Amanda Berry; Part 3 Beyond the Asylum Mental Health in Britain c. 1700–1939, Sandra Burman, Patricia van der Spuy; Chapter 6 The Household and the Care of Lunatics in Eighteenth-Century London, Akihito Suzuki; Chapter 7 Familial Care of ‘Idiot’ Children in Victorian England, David Wright; Chapter 8 Community Care and the Control of Mental Defectives in Inter-War Britain, Mathew Thomson; Part 4 Children and the Elderly in the Twentieth Century, Sandra Burman, Patricia van der Spuy; Chapter 9 Safeguarding the Health of the Community, Lara Marks; Chapter 10 Communities, ‘Caring’, and Institutions, Sandra Burman, Patricia van der Spuy; Chapter 11 Demographic Conditions, Microsimulation, and Family Support for the Elderly, Zhongwei Zhao;