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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.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pediatrics--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Pediatrics.
- Children--Health and hygiene--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Children.
- Children--Health and hygiene.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 304 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2002.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Sheds light on the development of the fields of pediatrics and child health during the last century.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Pediatrics as a Specialty
- Abraham Jacobi and the Origins of Scientific Pediatrics in America / Russell Viner 23
- For the Welfare of Children: The Origins of the Relationship between U.S. Public Health Workers and Pediatricians / Howard Markel 47
- Technology in the Nursery: Incubators, Ventilators, and the Rescue of Premature Infants / Jeffrey P. Baker 66
- Part 2. Standardizing the Child
- Weight Charts and Well Child Care: When the Pediatrician Became the Expert in Child Health / Jeffrey P. Brosco 91
- Better Babies Contests at the Indiana State Fair: Child Health, Scientific Motherhood, and Eugenics in the Midwest, 1920-35 / Alexandra Minna Stern 121
- "I Was a Teenage Dwarf": The Social Construction of "Normal" Adolescent Growth and Development in the United States / Heather Munro Prescott 153
- 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 / Richard Meckel 185
- Pathway to Health: Juvenile Diabetes and the Origins of Managerial Medicine / Chris Feudtner 208
- The Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse in America / Hughes Evans 233
- Framework as Prison: Interpreting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Late Twentieth Century / Janet Golden 260.
- 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.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472089802
- 0472112686
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.17065
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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