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UNINA9910819555603321 |
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Titolo |
Formative years : children's health in the United States, 1880-2000 / / edited by Alexandra Minna Stern, Howard Markel |
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Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-44544-8 |
9786612445446 |
0-472-02503-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Collana |
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Conversations in Medicine and Society |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SternAlexandra |
MarkelHoward |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Pediatrics - United States - History - 20th century |
Children - Health and hygiene - United States - History - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Updated and edited papers from the David Murray Cowie Symposium on the History of Pediatrics and Child Health in America, held Sept. 2000 in Ann Arbor, Mich. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1. Pediatrics as a Specialty""; ""Abraham Jacobi and the Origins of Scienti‹c Pediatrics in America""; ""For the Welfare of Children: The Origins of the Relationship between U.S. Public Health Workers and Pediatricians""; ""Technology in the Nursery: Incubators, Ventilators, and the Rescue of Premature Infants""; ""Part 2. Standardizing the Child""; ""Weight Charts and Well Child Care: When the Pediatrician Became the Expert in Child Health"" |
""Better Babies Contests at the Indiana State Fair: Child Health, Scienti‹c Motherhood, and Eugenics in the Midwest, 1920�35""""“I Was a Teenage Dwarf�: The Social Construction of “Normal� Adolescent Growth and Development in the United States""; ""Part 3. “Discovering� New Diseases in Children""; ""Going to School, Getting Sick: The Social and Medical Construction of School Diseases in the Late Nineteenth Century""; ""Pathway to Health: Juvenile Diabetes and the Origins of Managerial Medicine""; ""The Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse in America"" |
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