The Locus of Care: Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare Since Antiquity (Studies in the Social History of Medicine)

by PeregrineHorden (Editor), RichardSmith (Editor), Richard Smith (Editor), Peregrine Horden (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $145.84

  This work provides a historical perspective on welfare throughout the world, detailing who carers were in the past, where care was provided and how far the boundary between family and state or informal and organized institutions have changed over time.