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Pink and blue : gender, culture, and the health of children /

"In modern pediatric practice, gender matters. From the pink-and-blue-striped receiving blankets used to swaddle newborns, to the development of sex-specific nutrition plans based on societal expectations of the stature of children, a gendered culture permeates pediatrics and children's he...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Conis, Elena (Editor ), Eder, Sandra (Editor ), Medeiros, Aimee Lynn, 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Colección:Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Coming of age together : gender and pediatrics / Aimee Medeiros and Elena Conis
  • A tale of two charts : the history of gendering sex-specific growth assessment in children's health / Aimee Medeiros
  • "A habit that worries me very much" : raising good boys and girls in the postwar era / Jessica Martucci
  • Gender and doctor-parent communication about Down Syndrome in the mid-twentieth century / Hughes Evans
  • Making children into boys and girls : gender role in 1950s pediatric endocrinology / Sandra Eder
  • Depathologizing trans childhood : the role of history in the clinic / Jules Gill-Peterson
  • Race and gender in the NICU : wimpy white boys and strong black girls / Christine H. Morton, Krista Sigurdson, and Jochen Profit
  • Masculinity and the case for a childhood vaccine / Elena Conis
  • Weight, height, and the gendering of nutritional assessment / A.R. Ruis
  • Competitive youth sports, pediatricians, and gender in the 1950s / Kathleen Bachynski
  • Gender and the "new" puberty / Heather Prescott
  • Gender and HPV vaccination : responsible boyhood or responsible girls and women? / Laura Mamo and Ashley E. Pérez.