Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1: Foundations and Approaches to the Study of Care in the Past
Section 1: Care and the Life Course
Chapter 2: Childcare in the Past: The Contribution of Palaeopathology
Chapter 3: The “Terrible Tyranny of the Majority”: Recognising Population Variability and Individual Agency in Past Infant Feeding Practices
Chapter 4: Precious Things: Examining the Status and Care of Children in Late Medieval England through the Analysis of Cultural and Biological Markers
Chapter 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
Chapter 6: The Palaeolithic Compassion Debate – Alternative Projections of Modern-Day Disability into the Distant Past
Chapter 7: Setting the Scene for an Evolutionary Approach to Care in Prehistory: A Historical and Philosophical Journey
Chapter 8: “A Long Waiting for Death”: Dependency and the Care of the Disabled in a 19th Century Asylum
Chapter 9: Prayers and Poultices: Medieval Health Care at the Isle of May, Scotland, c. 430–1580 AD
Section 3: Care and Non-Human Animals
Chapter 10: Towards a Zooarchaeology of Animal “Care”
Chapter 11: Rare Secrets of Physicke: Insect Medicaments in Historical Western Society
Chapter 12: Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions
Guide
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1: Foundations and Approaches to the Study of Care in the Past
Section 1: Care and the Life Course
Chapter 2: Childcare in the Past: The Contribution of Palaeopathology
Chapter 3: The “Terrible Tyranny of the Majority”: Recognising Population Variability and Individual Agency in Past Infant Feeding Practices
Chapter 4: Precious Things: Examining the Status and Care of Children in Late Medieval England through the Analysis of Cultural and Biological Markers
Chapter 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
Chapter 6: The Palaeolithic Compassion Debate – Alternative Projections of Modern-Day Disability into the Distant Past
Chapter 7: Setting the Scene for an Evolutionary Approach to Care in Prehistory: A Historical and Philosophical Journey
Chapter 8: “A Long Waiting for Death”: Dependency and the Care of the Disabled in a 19th Century Asylum
Chapter 9: Prayers and Poultices: Medieval Health Care at the Isle of May, Scotland, c. 430–1580 AD
Section 3: Care and Non-Human Animals
Chapter 10: Towards a Zooarchaeology of Animal “Care”
Chapter 11: Rare Secrets of Physicke: Insect Medicaments in Historical Western Society
Chapter 12: Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions
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