Cultures of child health in Britain and the Netherlands in the twentieth century / edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Hilary Marland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke.

Marland, Hilary.

Series:

Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; no.71.

Wellcome series in the history of medicine

Clio medica 0045-7183 ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pediatrics--Great Britain--History.

Pediatrics.

Pediatrics--Netherlands--History.

History.

Netherlands.

Great Britain.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, [2003]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century / Hilary Marland, Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra 7

2 Vigorous, Pure and Vulnerable: Child Health and Citizenship in the Netherlands Since the End of the Nineteenth Century / Ido de Haan 31

3 Child Health, National Fitness, and Physical Education in Britain, 1900-1940 / John Welshman 61

4 Educational Reform, Citizenship and the Origins of the School Medical Service / Bernard Harris 85

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 103

6 Health and the Medicalisation of Advice to Parents in the Netherlands, 1890-1950 / Nelleke Bakker 127

7 'Grown-up Children': Understandings of Health and Mental Deficiency in Edwardian England / Mark Jackson 149

8 Mulock Houwer's 'Education for Responsibility': A Chapter from the Dutch History of Institutional Upbringing / Ido Weijers 169

9 The Healthy Citizen of Empire or Juvenile Delinquent?: Beating and Mental Health in the UK / Deborah Thom 189

10 Children's Emotional Well-being and Mental Health in Early Post-Second World War Britain: The Case of Unrestricted Hospital Visiting / Harry Hendrick 213

11 The Problem of Sex Education in the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century / Hugo Roling 243

12 'Tall, Spanking People': The Idealisation of Adolescents in a Dutch Therapeutic Community / Gemma Blok 265

13 In the Name of the Child Beyond / Roger Cooter 287.

ISBN:

9042010541

9042010444

OCLC:

52423056