THE LOCUS OF CARE Families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on the contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Informal care: from ethnography to ancient history -- 1 Household Care and Informal Networks: Comparisons and Continuities from Antiquity to the Present -- Part II Networks and institutions in western Europe c. 1500-c. 1800 -- 2 Networks of Care in Elizabethan English Towns: The Example of Hadleigh, Suffolk -- 3 Family Obligations and Inequalities in Acess to Care in Northern Italy, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries -- 4 Self-Help and Reciprocity in Parish Assistance: Bordeaux in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 5 Community Sponsorship and the Hospital Patient in Late Eighteenth-Century England -- Part III Beyond the asylum: mental health in Britain c. 1700-1939 -- 6 The Household and the Care of Lunatics in Eighteenth-Century London -- 7 Familial Care of 'Idiot' Children in Victorian England -- 8 Community Care and the Control of Mental Defectives in Inter-war Britain -- Part IV Children and the elderly in the twentieth century -- 9 Safeguarding the Health of the Community: Maternal and Infant Welfare Services in Four London Boroughs 1902-1936 -- 10 Communities, 'Caring', and Institutions: Apartheid and Child Care in Cape Town Since 1948 -- 11 Demographic Conditions, Microsimulation, and Family Support for the Elderly: Past, Present, and Future in China -- Index.