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Foundling Hospitals

Foundling Hospitals is a historical institution, distinct from general orphanages or almshouses, specifically established to receive and care for infants who were abandoned or illegitimate, thereby functioning as a formalized mechanism within early modern European social welfare systems for the institutional protection of unwanted newborns.

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Publications

927

Citations

33

Authors

16

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

1

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Foundling Homes

Parents

Publications

26

Necrotizing Enterocolitis – 150 Years of Fruitless Search for the Cause

Michael Obladen · Neonatology · 2009 · 140 citations

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LONELINESS IN INFANTS

Harry Bakwin · Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine · 1942 · 136 citations

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Coram's Children: The London Foundling Hospital in the Eighteenth Century

Richard S. Tompson, Ruth K. Mcclure · The American Historical Review · 1982 · 90 citations

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Research Involving Children: Recommendations of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research

Albert R. Jonsen · PEDIATRICS · 1978 · 63 citations

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Diphtheria and Theories of Infectious Disease: Centennial Appreciation of the Critical Role of Diphtheria in the History of Medicine

Peter C. English · PEDIATRICS · 1985 · 62 citations

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Authors

33

  1. AL
    Alysa Levene

    Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 55 citations

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  2. RS
    Richard S. Tompson

    University of Utah, United States

    1 publications · 90 citations

    1

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  3. AR
    Andrew Read

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    1 publications · 23 citations

    1

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  4. AM
    Ashley Mathisen

    University of Guelph, Canada

    1 publications · 20 citations

    1

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  5. EA
    Edwards A. Park

    1 publications · 11 citations

    1

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Institutions

16

  1. University of Canberra

    Canberra, Australia

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    46 citations

  2. Duke University Hospital

    Durham, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    62 citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  4. University of Bath

    Bath, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    28 citations

  5. PHG Foundation

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    30 citations

  6. Institute of Contemporary History

    Ljubljana, Slovenia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  7. Statistics Sweden

    Örebro, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  8. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    63 citations

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Venues

  1. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

    4 publications · 191 citations

    4

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  2. The History of the Family

    3 publications · 58 citations

    3

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  3. PEDIATRICS

    2 publications · 125 citations

    2

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  4. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 1 publications · 90 citations

    1

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  5. Eighteenth-Century Studies

    1 publications · 14 citations

    1

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