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Every child a lion : the origins of maternal and infant health policy in the United States and France, 1890-1920 /
One of Aesop's fables tells of the fox who taunted the lion about having so few children. "Yes," the lion replies, "but every child is a lion." This dispute is particularly appropriate to Alisa Klaus's comparative account of the early history of maternal and child welfa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Infant Mortality and Social Reform
- 1. Pronatalism, Eugenics, and Infant Mortality
- 2. Puericulteurs and Pediatricians: The Medical Supervision of Infant Health
- 3. French and American Women and Infant Health
- 4. American Women and the "Better Baby" Movement
- 5. French Public Policy and Motherhood, 1890-1914
- 6. "Baby's Health
- Civic Wealth": The Work of the U.S. Children's Bureau
- 7. "Bread, Bullets, and Babies": Saving the Next Generation in France and the United States
- Conclusion: Comparative Issues in Maternal and Infant Health Policy.