The health and welfare of children became an area of concern and action in the early decades of the twentieth century. This concern would develop an ever-broader remit during the course of the century, moving from anxiety about high death rates, physical health and the 'unfit', to embrace all children and the mental health and the psychological well-being of individuals.
This volume emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch Workshop held at the University of Warwick in July 1999, and is the first book to explore child health in the twentieth century in a comparative perspective, focussing on such issues as the link between child health and citizenship, the impact of ideas concerning degeneracy, socialisation, consumerism and children's rights, and the role of the family, state and experts in mediating child health.
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Notes on Contributors
1 Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century Hilary Marland and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
2 Vigorous, Pure and Vulnerable: Child Health and Citizenship in the Netherlands Since the End of the Nineteenth Century Ido de Haan
3 Child Health, National Fitness, and Physical Education in Britain, 1900-1940 John Welshman
4 Educational Reform, Citizenship and the Origins of the School Medical Service Bernard Harris
5 Child Health, Commerce and Family Values: The Domestic Production of the Middle Class in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Britain Lyubov G. Gurjeva
6 Health and the Medicalisation of Advice to Parents in the Netherlands, 1890-1950 Nelleke Bakker
7 'Grown-up Children': Understandings of Health and Mental Deficiency in Edwardian England Mark Jackson
This volume emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch Workshop held at the University of Warwick in July 1999, and is the first book to explore child health in the twentieth century in a comparative perspective, focussing on such issues as the link between child health and citizenship, the impact of ideas concerning degeneracy, socialisation, consumerism and children's rights, and the role of the family, state and experts in mediating child health.
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1 Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century Hilary Marland and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
2 Vigorous, Pure and Vulnerable: Child Health and Citizenship in the Netherlands Since the End of the Nineteenth Century Ido de Haan
3 Child Health, National Fitness, and Physical Education in Britain, 1900-1940 John Welshman
4 Educational Reform, Citizenship and the Origins of the School Medical Service Bernard Harris
5 Child Health, Commerce and Family Values: The Domestic Production of the Middle Class in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Britain Lyubov G. Gurjeva
6 Health and the Medicalisation of Advice to Parents in the Netherlands, 1890-1950 Nelleke Bakker
7 'Grown-up Children': Understandings of Health and Mental Deficiency in Edwardian England Mark Jackson