The Family: A Social History of the Twentieth Century

by John Harriss and Harriss

Book Overview

At the turn of the century, most women gave birth in their own homes, often attended only by a midwife or some friends and relatives; as they reached the end of life most people died in the same home they were born in, surrounded by family. Today, vast numbers of people begin and end life in the sterilized, institutional world of hospitals and nursing homes, dying far from where they were born, their families broken by divorce, their lives extended...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195208447
• ISBN13: 9780195208443
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.8" x 11.4"