The University of Chicago Header Logo

Orphanages

"Orphanages" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Institutions for the housing and care of orphans, foundlings, and abandoned children. They have existed as such since the medieval period but the heading is applicable to such usage also in modern parlance.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Orphanages" by people in this website by year, and whether "Orphanages" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
_