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Life, death, and the elderly : historical perspectives
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- Creator
- edited by Margaret Pelling and Richard M. Smith
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 1991
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 252 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415057424, 0415057426
- OCLC
- ocm23176767
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- The manorial court and the elderly tenant in late medieval England / Richard M. Smith -- Sufferings of the clergy : illness and old age in Exeter diocese, 1300-1540 / Nicholas Orme -- Old age, poverty, and disability in early modern Norwich : work, remarriage, and other expedients / Margaret Pelling -- The elderly and the bereaved in eighteenth-century Ludlow / S.J. Wright -- The medicalization of old age : continuity and change in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century / Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz -- The elderly and the early national health service / Charles Webster -- The welfare of the elderly in the past : a family or community responsibility? / David Thomson
- Welfare institutions in comparative perspective : the fate of the elderly in contemporary South Asia and pre-industrial Western Europe / Mead Cain
Subjects
- Older people -- Social conditions.
- Older people -- Health and hygiene -- History.
- Old age assistance -- History.
- Aged -- history.
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- Health Services for the Aged -- history.
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- Social Conditions -- history.
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- Social Welfare -- history.
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