Abandoned children
By: edited by Catherine Panter-Brick and Malcolm T. Smith.
Contributors: Panter-Brick, Catherine, 1959-; Smith, Malcolm T.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Abandoned children -- History; Foundlings -- Care -- History; Street children -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nobody's children? A reconsideration of child abandonment / Catherine Panter-Brick; title: Circulation of children in eighteenth-century Portugal / Isabel Dos Guimarães Sá; title: The lives of foundlings in nineteenth-century Italy / David I. Kertzer; title: Modelling the economic and human costs of foundling care in the Azores / Malcolm T. Smith; title: Five centuries of foundling history in Florence : changing patterns of abandonment, care and mortality / Pier Paolo Viazzo, Maria Bortolotto and Andrea Zanotto; title: 'Borrowed children' in the Greek civil war / Eftihia Voutira and Aigli Brouskou; title: Children separated from their families in the Mozambique war / Helen Charnley; title: Psychological perspectives of 'abandoned' and 'abandoning' street children / Angela Veale, Max Taylor, and Carol Linehan; title: In search of Brazil's street children / Tobias Hecht; title: A comparative perspective on children's 'careers' and abandonment in Nepal / Rachel Baker and Catherine Panter-Brick; title: Abandonment and child prostitution in a Thai slum community / Heather Montgomery; title: Seen but not heard : refugee children and models for intervention / Rachel Hinton; title: Children of protracted exile : where do we belong? / Mia Flores-Bórquez.