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Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh,
Veronica Strong-Boag

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From sentimental stories about polio to the latest cherub in hospital commercials, sick children tug at the public’s heartstrings. However sick children have not always had adequate medical care or protection. The essays in Children’s Issues in Historical Perspective investigate the identification, prevention, and treatment of childhood diseases from the 1800s onwards, in areas ranging from French-colonial Vietnam to nineteenth-century northern British Columbia, from New Zealand fresh air camps to American health fairs.

Themes include: the role of government and/or the private sector in initiating and underwriting child public health programs; the growth of the profession of pediatrics and its views on “proper” mothering techniques; the role of nationalism, as well as ethnic and racial dimensions in child-saving movements; normative behaviour, social control, and the treatment of “deviant” children and adolescents; poverty, wealth, and child health measures; and the development of the modern children’s hospital.

This liberally illustrated collection reflects the growing academic interest in all aspects of childhood, especially child health, and originates from health care professionals and scholars across the disciplines. An introduction by the editors places the historical themes in context and offers an overview of the contemporary study of children’s health.

Table of Contents

Contents
Page 8-11

Acknowledgements
Page 12-13

Introduction: The Spotlight on Children
Page 14-33

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POLITICS
Page 34-141

-----Vegetables on Parade: American Medicine and the Child Health Movement in the Jazz Age
Page 36-85

-----No More Surprising Than a Broken Pitcher?: Maternal and Child Health in the Early Years of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau
Page 86-113

-----Entre la «Revanche» et la «Veillée» des berceaux: Les médecins québécois francophones, la mortalité infantile, et la question nationale, 1910–1940
Page 114-141

NUTRITION
Page 142-219

-----Infant Ideologies: Doctors, Mothers, and the Feeding of Children in Australia, 1880–1910
Page 144-173

-----Perpetually Malnourished?: Diet, Health, and America’s Young in the Twentieth Century
Page 174-203

-----The Early Development of Nutrition Policy in Canada
Page 204-219

RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIMENSIONS
Page 220-337

-----Caring for the Foreign-Born: The Health of Immigrant Children in the United States, 1890–1925
Page 222-239

-----La médicalisation de la mère et de son enfant: L’exemple du Vietnam sous domination française, 1860–1939
Page 240-279

-----Complicating Childhood: Gender, Ethnicity, and “Disadvantage” within the New Zealand Children’s Health Camps Movement
Page 280-299

-----Race, Class, and Health: School Medical Inspection and “Healthy” Children in British Columbia, 1890–1930
Page 300-317

-----Ordering the Bath: Children, Health, and Hygiene in Northern Canadian Communities, 1900–1970
Page 318-337

EXPERTS
Page 338-421

-----Physician Denial and Child Sexual Abuse in America, 1870–2000
Page 340-367

-----“Living Symptoms”: Adolescent Health Care in English Canada, 1920–1970
Page 368-403

-----The Iconography of Child Public Health: Between Medicine and Reform
Page 404-421

INSTITUTIONS
Page 422-519

-----La contribution de l’Hôpital Saint-Paul et de l’Alexandra Hospital à la lutte contre les maladies contagieuses infantiles à Montréal, 1905–1934
Page 424-451

-----The Architecture of Children’s Hospitals in Toronto and Montreal, 1875–2010
Page 452-491

-----Frontier Health Services for Children: Alberta’s Provincial Travelling Clinic, 1924–1942
Page 492-519

Selected Bibliography
Page 520-545

List of Contributors
Page 546-549

Index
Page 550-567

-----A
Page 550-550

-----B
Page 551-551

-----C
Page 552-554

-----D
Page 555-555

-----E
Page 555-555

-----F
Page 556-556

-----G
Page 556-556

-----H
Page 556-557

-----I
Page 558-558

-----J
Page 559-559

-----K
Page 559-559

-----L
Page 559-559

-----M
Page 559-559

-----N
Page 560-560

-----O
Page 561-561

-----P
Page 561-562

-----Q
Page 563-563

-----R
Page 563-563

-----S
Page 564-564

-----T
Page 565-565

-----U
Page 565-565

-----V
Page 566-566

-----W
Page 567-567

-----Z
Page 567-567

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Book Details

Title

Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective

Contributors

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh,
Veronica Strong-Boag

Publisher

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Publication date

2006-01-01

Pages

xi, 554 p.

Print ISBN

9780889204744

eBook ISBN

9780889209121

LC Subjects

Child health services - History., Children - Health and hygiene - History.

Audience

College/higher education

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