Janet Golden

Babies Made Us Modern

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reveals how babies shaped modern American life, including the rise of the medical authority, consumerism, social welfare, and popular psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781108415002
• ISBN-10: 1108415008
• Artikelnr.: 49789844

Autorenporträt

Janet Golden is Professor of History at Rutgers University Camden. She is the author of several articles and books, including Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (2006). She is co-editor of the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series at Rutgers University Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer's public health blog.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Infant lives and deaths: incubators
demographics
photographs; 2. Valuing babies: economics
social welfare
progressives; 3. Helping citizen baby: the US Children's Bureau
good advice
better babies; 4. Bringing up babies I: giving
spending
saving
praying; 5. Bringing up babies II: health and illness
food and drink; 6. Helping baby citizens: traditional healers
patent medicines
local cultures; 7. The inner lives of babies: infant psychology; 8. Babies' changing times: depression
war
peace; 9. Baby boom babies; Coda. Kissing and dismissing babies: American exceptionalism.