In the Name of the Child

Recent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around the First World War. It describes how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were shaped and how changes in medical and welfare provisions were closely allied to political and ideological interests.

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In the Name of the Child

Recent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around the First World War. It describes how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were shaped and how changes in medical and welfare provisions were closely allied to political and ideological interests.

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In the Name of the Child

In the Name of the Child

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Overview

Recent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around the First World War. It describes how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were shaped and how changes in medical and welfare provisions were closely allied to political and ideological interests.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134933204
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/01/2013
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 901 KB

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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
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