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In the name of the child : health and welfare, 1880-1940 /

In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political construction of the child, and descrives how medical and welfare initiatives of the time were closely allied to political and ideological interests.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Authors: Society for the Social History of Medicine, British Paediatric Association
Other Authors: Cooter, Roger
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Series:Studies in the social history of medicine.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bodies, figures and physiology : Margaret McMillan and the late nineteenth-century remaking of working-class childhood / Carolyn Steedman
  • Child labour, medical capital, and the school medical service, c.1890-1918 / Harry Hendrick
  • 'Wonderlands of buttercup, clover and daisies' : tuberculosis and the open-air school movement in Britain, 1907-39 / Linda Bryder
  • Orphans as guinea pigs : American children and medical experimenters, 1890-1930 / Susan E. Lederer
  • From isolation to therapy : children's hospitals and diphtheria in fin de siècle Paris, London and Berlin / Paul Weindling
  • Cleveland in history : the abused child and child protection, 1880-1914 / Harry Ferguson
  • From bodies to minds in childcare literature : advice to parents in inter-war Britain / Cathy Urwin and Elaine Sharland
  • Wishes, anxieties, play, and gestures : child guidance in inter-war England / Deborah Thom
  • Darkly through a lens : changing perceptions of the African child in sickness and health, 1900-1945 / Jennifer Beinart
  • Welfare, wages and the family : child endowment in comparative perspective, 1900-50 / John Macnicol.