In the Name of the Child (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cooter, Roger

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political construction of the child, and descrives how medical and welfare initiatives of the time were closely allied to politcal and ideological interests.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134933204
• Artikelnr.: 38252414

Autorenporträt

Roger Cooter is Senior Research Officer at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester, and one of the editors of Social History of Medicine. The author of The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science (1984), Phrenology in the British Isles (1989), and Surgery and Society in Peace and War, 1880- 1948 (1993). He has also edited Studies in the History of Alternative Medicine (1988).

Inhaltsangabe

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
1900-45
10 WELFARE
WAGES AND THE FAMILY: CHILD ENDOWMENT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
1900-50
Index