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.
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.
Alysa Levene is Lecturer in the Department of History at Oxford Brookes University
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1. Introduction 2. The characteristics of foundlings 3. Risks of death: the estimation of mortality 4. Survival prospects 5. The nursing network 6. Growing up as a foster child 7. Childcare and health in a local setting 8. Foundlings and the local demographic context 9. Conclusions Index
Preface 1. Introduction 2. The characteristics of foundlings 3. Risks of death: the estimation of mortality 4. Survival prospects 5. The nursing network 6. Growing up as a foster child 7. Childcare and health in a local setting 8. Foundlings and the local demographic context 9. Conclusions Index
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