CHILDCARE HEALTH AND MORTALITY IN - ''Left to the Mercy of the World''

Informationen zum Autor Alysa Levene is Lecturer in the Department of History at Oxford Brookes University Klappentext This book is a thorough and appealing investigation into the health and welfare of abandoned babies and children in eighteenth-century England. It uses a variety of approaches to examine health, mortality and welfare practices, including family fostering, wet-nursing, disease and the impact of abandonment on survivorship. Zusammenfassung This book is a thorough and appealing investigation into the health and welfare of abandoned babies and children in eighteenth-century England. It uses a variety of approaches to examine health! mortality and welfare practices! including family fostering! wet-nursing! disease and the impact of abandonment on survivorship. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1. Introduction2. The characteristics of foundlings3. Risks of death: the estimation of mortality4. Survival prospects5. The nursing network6. Growing up as a foster child7. Childcare and health in a local setting8. Foundlings and the local demographic context9. ConclusionsIndex

Product details

• Authors: Alysa Levene, Levene Alysa
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9780719073557
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7355-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; London, Greater London, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Child welfare, Child welfare and youth services, C 1700 To C 1800