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Paperback Childcare, Health and Mortality in the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800: 'Left to the Mercy of the World' Book

ISBN: 0719073553

ISBN13: 9780719073557

Childcare, Health and Mortality in the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800: 'Left to the Mercy of the World'

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Newly available in paperback, this thorough and engaging examination of an institution and its young charges is set in the wider social, cultural, demographic and medical context of the eighteenth century. By examining the often short lives of abandoned babies, Levene illustrates the variety of pathways to health, ill-health and death taken by the young and how it intersected with local epidemiology, institutional life and experiences of abandonment,...

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