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Titolo: | Formative years : children's health in the United States, 1880-2000 / / edited by Alexandra Minna Stern, Howard Markel |
Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2002 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina: | 618.92000973 |
Soggetto topico: | Pediatrics - United States - History - 20th century |
Children - Health and hygiene - United States - History - 20th century | |
Altri autori: | SternAlexandra MarkelHoward |
Note generali: | 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. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" | |
""Framework as Prison: Interpreting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Late Twentieth Century""""Bibliography and Suggested Reading""; ""Index"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Sheds light on the development of the fields of pediatrics and child health during the last century. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Formative years |
ISBN: | 1-282-44544-8 |
9786612445446 | |
0-472-02503-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819555603321 |
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