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Small matters : Canadian children in sickness and health, 1900-1940 /
What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mona Gleason explores how medical professionals, lay practitioners, and parents understood young patients and how children responded. During the first half...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montréal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2013.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Intimate Landscape of Health in the History of Children and Childhood
- 1 Doctored Bodies: Professional Medical Discourse and Children's Embodied Difference
- 2 Florence, Marc, Alice, and Theresa: Healthy Bodies and Domestic Doctoring, 1910s to the 1920s
- 3 Shirley, Lily, Jack, and Lina: Healthy Bodies and Domestic Doctoring, 1920s to the 1940s
- 4 Learning the Body: Schools, Curriculum, and Health
- 5 Treated Bodies: Hospitalization
- 6 Reforming the Body: Doctors, Educators, and Attitudes Towards Disability in Childhood
- Conclusion: Small Matters: Historical Meaning and Children's Embodiment
- Appendices. 1 Causes of Infant Death in Canada
- 2 Participant Information
- 3 My Health Record.