Current Catalog
Current Catalog

Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 1340

ISBN-13:

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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Visible Histories
Visible Histories

Author: Suzanne Mackenzie

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780773507128

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While there has been growing interest in assimilating women's experience into the social record of human history, relatively few studies have examined the environments women have built and changed in creating history. Through an examination of the process of environmental change as an important part of gender relations and socio-economic activity, Suzanne Mackenzie shows how the environmental activity of women both increased the visibility of their historical creativity and altered existing environments in the resort city of Brighton, England. She documents the multitude of ways in which women changed not only themselves but also the city in which they lived during the decades between the end of the Second World War and the early 1980s.

The Locus of Care
The Locus of Care

Author: Peregrine Horden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1134831919

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The care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family, the wider community, religious organisations and the State funded institutions. The Locus of Care provides an historical perspective on welfare detailing who carers were in the past, where care was provided, and how far the boundary between family and state or informal and organised institutions have changed over time. Eleven international contributors provide a wide-ranging examination of themes, such as child care, mental health, and provision for the elderly and question the idea that there has been a recent evolutionary shift from informal provision to institutional care. Chapters on Europe and England use case studies and link evidence from ancient and medieval periods to contemporary problems and the recent past, whilst studies on China and South Africa look to the future of welfare throughout the world. By placing welfare in its historical, social, cultural and demographic contexts, Locus of Care reassesses community and institutional care and the future expectations of welfare provision.

Mother and child
Mother and child

Author: Lindsey Earner-Byrne

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1526129949

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This fascinating book provides a detailed account of the history of maternity and child welfare in Dublin between 1922 and 1960. In so doing it places maternity and child welfare in the context of twentieth-century Irish history, offering one of the only accounts of how women and children were viewed, treated and used by key lobby groups in Irish society and by the Irish state. Mother and child is of critical importance to understanding the political and social history of modern Ireland as it examines the responses of the State, the church, voluntary groups and women to the emergence of the welfare State in Ireland. As such it makes a welcome contribution to Irish political, social, medical and gender history.