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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814142003321

Titolo

In the name of the child : health and welfare, 1880-1940 / / edited by Roger Cooter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992

ISBN

1-134-93320-7

1-134-93321-5

1-280-32261-6

9786610322619

0-585-44728-4

0-203-41223-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in the social history of medicine

Altri autori (Persone)

CooterRoger

Disciplina

362.1/9892/009

Soggetti

Children - Health and hygiene - History

Child welfare - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originated in a conference held at the Institute of Historical Research in Oct. 1987, sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the British Paediatric Association.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; IN THE NAME OF THE CHILD; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; 1 BODIES, FIGURES AND PHYSIOLOGY: MARGARET MCMILLAN AND THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY REMAKING OF WORKING-CLASS CHILDHOOD; 2 CHILD LABOUR, MEDICAL CAPITAL, AND THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE, c. 1890-1918; 3 'WONDERLANDS OF BUTTERCUP, CLOVER AND DAISIES': TUBERCULOSIS AND THE OPEN-AIR SCHOOL MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN, 1907-39; 4 ORPHANS AS GUINEA PIGS: AMERICAN CHILDREN AND MEDICAL EXPERIMENTERS, 1890-1930

5 FROM ISOLATION TO THERAPY: CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS AND DIPHTHERIA IN FIN DE SIÈCLE PARIS, LONDON AND BERLIN; 6 CLEVELAND IN HISTORY: THE ABUSED CHILD AND CHILD PROTECTION, 1880-1914; 7 FROM BODIES TO MINDS IN CHILDCARE LITERATURE: ADVICE TO PARENTS IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN; 8 WISHES, ANXIETIES,



PLAY, AND GESTURES: CHILD GUIDANCE IN INTER-WAR ENGLAND; 9 DARKLY THROUGH A LENS: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF THE AFRICAN CHILD IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH, 1900-1945; 10 WELFARE, WAGES AND THE FAMILY: CHILD ENDOWMENT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, 1900-50; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Recent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around the First World War. It describes how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were shaped and how changes in medical and welfare provisions were closely allied to political and ideological interests.