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Children's health issues in historical perspective / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child health services--History.
- Child health services.
- Children--Health and hygiene--History.
- Children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (567 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 1800's 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Spotlight on Children; POLITICS; NUTRITION; RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIMENSIONS; EXPERTS; INSTITUTIONS; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610280834
- 9781280280832
- 1280280832
- 9781459341722
- 1459341724
- 9780889209121
- 088920912X
- 9781423743040
- 1423743040
- OCLC:
- 753479612
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