Household care and informal networks: Comparisons and continuities from antiquit to the present

The Locus of Care: Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare Since Antiquity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 21-67

  Harden, Peregrine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203428047     Document Type: Chapter

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