Foisted upon the government? : state responsibilities, family obligations, and the care of the dependent aged in late nineteenth-century Ontario /
While government officials in the 1890s claimed that forcing families to take responsibility for caring for the aged was in the interest of the elderly, Edgar-Andre Montigny reveals that government policy had more to do with saving money than a desire to serve the aged. He provides a harsh critique...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997. |
| Series: | McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
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