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Formative years : children's health in the United States, 1880-2000 /
"Contents"; "Acknowledgments"; "List of Contributors"; "Foreword"; "Introduction"; "Part 1. Pediatrics as a Specialty"; "Abraham Jacobi and the Origins of Scientific Pediatrics in America"; "For the Welfare of Children: The O...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2009, ©2002.
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| Colección: | Conversations in medicine and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Contents"; "Acknowledgments"; "List of Contributors"; "Foreword"; "Introduction"; "Part 1. Pediatrics as a Specialty"; "Abraham Jacobi and the Origins of Scientific Pediatrics in America"; "For the Welfare of Children: The Origins of the Relationship between U.S. Public Health Workers and Pediatricians"; "Technology in the Nursery: Incubators, Ventilators, and the Rescue of Premature Infants"; "Part 2. Standardizing the Child"; "Weight Charts and Well Child Care: When the Pediatrician Became the Expert in Child Health"; "Better Babies Contests at the Indiana State Fair: Child Health, Scientific Motherhood, and Eugenics in the Midwest, 1920-35" "'I Was a Teenage Dwarf': The Social Construction of 'Normal' Adolescent Growth and Development in the United States"; "Part 3. "'Discovering' New Diseases in Children"; "Going to School, Getting Sick: The Social and Medical Construction of School Diseases in the Late Nineteenth Century"; "Pathway to Health: Juvenile Diabetes and the Origins of Managerial Medicine"; "The Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse in America"; "Framework as Prison: Interpreting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Late Twentieth Century"; "Bibliography and Suggested Reading"; "Index." |
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| Notas: | Updated and edited papers from the David Murray Cowie Symposium on the History of Pediatrics and Child Health in America, held Sept. 2000 in Ann Arbor, Mich. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 304 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and suggested readings (pages 283-287), and index. |
| ISBN: | 1282445448 9781282445444 9786612445446 6612445440 0472025031 9780472025039 |