Women and Children First (Routledge Revivals) (eBook, PDF)

International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945
Redaktion: Fildes, Valerie; Marland, Hilary; Marks, Lara

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. It looks at the problem in five different continents and shows the varying approaches used by the governments, institutions and individuals in those countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135050160
• Artikelnr.: 39705224

Autorenporträt

Hilary Marland, Valerie Fildes, Lara Marks

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements;
List of abbreviations; Introduction 1. Some international features of
maternal morality, 1880-1950 Irvine Loudon 2. Maternity care and the threat
of puerperal fever in Sydney, 1870-1939 Milton Lewis 3. Mothers, babies and
hospitals: 'The London' and the provision of maternity care in East London,
1870-1939 Lara Marks 4. The medicalization of motherhood: doctors and
infant welfare in the Netherlands, 1901-1930 Hilary Marland 5. 'The infant
soldier': early child welfare efforts in Ontario Cynthia R. Comacchio 6.
'Why does Congress wish women and children to die?': the rise and fall of
public maternal and infant health care in the United States, 1921-1929
Molly Ladd-Taylor 7. Ephemeral lives: the unremitting infant mortality of
colonial Burma, 1891-1941 Judith Richell 8. Women and the state: maternal
and child welfare in colonial Malaya, 1900-1940 Lenore Manderson 9.
'Getting close to the hearts of mothers': medical missionaries among
African women and children in Johannesburg between the wars Debby Gaitskell
10. 'Dangerous Motherhood': maternity care and the gendered construction of
Afrikaner identity, 1904-1939 Marijke du Toit 11. 'That welfare warfare':
sectarianism in infant welfare in Australia, 1918-1939 Philippa Mein Smith
12. The costs of modern motherhood to low income families in interwar
Britain Elizabeth Peretz; Bibliography; Index