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Care in the Past : Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (239 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781785703362
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Care in the PastDDC classification:
  • 930.1
LOC classification:
  • CC72.4.C374 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Foundations and Approaches to the Study of Care in the Past -- Section 1 Care and the Life Course -- 2. Childcare in the Past: The Contribution of Palaeopathology -- 3. The "Terrible Tyranny of the Majority": Recognising Population Variability and Individual Agency in Past Infant Feeding Practices -- 4. Precious Things: Examining the Status and Care of Children in Late Medieval England through the Analysis of Cultural and Biological Markers -- 5. That "Tattered Coat Upon a Stick" the Ageing Body: Evidence for Elder Marginalisation and Abuse in Roman Britain -- Section 2 Care, Impairment and Disability -- 6. The Palaeolithic Compassion Debate - Alternative Projections of Modern-Day Disability into the Distant Past -- 7. Setting the Scene for an Evolutionary Approach to Care in Prehistory: A Historical and Philosophical Journey -- 8. "A Long Waiting for Death": Dependency and the Care of the Disabled in a 19th Century Asylum -- 9. Prayers and Poultices: Medieval Health Care at the Isle of May, Scotland, c. 430-1580 AD -- Section 3 Care and Non-Human Animals -- 10. Towards a Zooarchaeology of Animal "Care" -- 11. Rare Secrets of Physicke: Insect Medicaments in Historical Western Society -- 12. Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Foundations and Approaches to the Study of Care in the Past -- Section 1 Care and the Life Course -- 2. Childcare in the Past: The Contribution of Palaeopathology -- 3. The "Terrible Tyranny of the Majority": Recognising Population Variability and Individual Agency in Past Infant Feeding Practices -- 4. Precious Things: Examining the Status and Care of Children in Late Medieval England through the Analysis of Cultural and Biological Markers -- 5. That "Tattered Coat Upon a Stick" the Ageing Body: Evidence for Elder Marginalisation and Abuse in Roman Britain -- Section 2 Care, Impairment and Disability -- 6. The Palaeolithic Compassion Debate - Alternative Projections of Modern-Day Disability into the Distant Past -- 7. Setting the Scene for an Evolutionary Approach to Care in Prehistory: A Historical and Philosophical Journey -- 8. "A Long Waiting for Death": Dependency and the Care of the Disabled in a 19th Century Asylum -- 9. Prayers and Poultices: Medieval Health Care at the Isle of May, Scotland, c. 430-1580 AD -- Section 3 Care and Non-Human Animals -- 10. Towards a Zooarchaeology of Animal "Care" -- 11. Rare Secrets of Physicke: Insect Medicaments in Historical Western Society -- 12. Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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