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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stern, Alexandra Minna, 1966- (Editor ), Markel, Howard (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009, ©2002.
Colección:Conversations in medicine and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Pediatrics as a Specialty
  • Abraham Jacobi and the Origins of Scienti‹c 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, Scienti‹c Motherhood, and Eugenics in the Midwest, 1920â€?35“I Was a Teenage Dwarfâ€?: The Social Construction of “Normalâ€? Adolescent Growth and Development in the United States
  • Part 3. “Discoveringâ€? 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 CenturyBibliography and Suggested Reading
  • Index