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Formative years : children's health in the United States, 1880-2000 / edited by Alexandra Minna Stern, Howard Markel.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- David Murray Cowie Symposium on the History of Pediatrics and Child Health in America (2000 : Ann Arbor, Mich.)
- Series:
- Conversations in Medicine and Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pediatrics--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Pediatrics.
- Children--Health and hygiene--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sheds light on the development of the fields of pediatrics and child health during the last century.
- Contents:
- ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1. Pediatrics as a Specialty""; ""Abraham Jacobi and the Origins of Scienti‹c Pediatrics in America""; ""For the Welfare of Children: The Origins of the Relationship between U.S. Public Health Workers and Pediatricians""; ""Technology in the Nursery: Incubators, Ventilators, and the Rescue of Premature Infants""; ""Part 2. Standardizing the Child""; ""Weight Charts and Well Child Care: When the Pediatrician Became the Expert in Child Health""
- ""Better Babies Contests at the Indiana State Fair: Child Health, Scienti‹c Motherhood, and Eugenics in the Midwest, 1920�35""""“I Was a Teenage Dwarf�: The Social Construction of “Normal� Adolescent Growth and Development in the United States""; ""Part 3. “Discovering� New Diseases in Children""; ""Going to School, Getting Sick: The Social and Medical Construction of School Diseases in the Late Nineteenth Century""; ""Pathway to Health: Juvenile Diabetes and the Origins of Managerial Medicine""; ""The Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse in America""
- ""Framework as Prison: Interpreting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Late Twentieth Century""""Bibliography and Suggested Reading""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Updated and edited papers from the David Murray Cowie Symposium on the History of Pediatrics and Child Health in America, held Sept. 2000 in Ann Arbor, Mich.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-44544-8
- 9786612445446
- 0-472-02503-1
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