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Healing the world's children : interdisciplinary perspectives on child health in the twentieth century / edited by Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 31.
- McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; v. 31
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Health and hygiene.
- Children.
- Pediatrics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North American to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history.
- Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILD HEALTH; PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING HEALTH AND DISABILITY; PART THREE: HEARING CHILDREN'S VOICES; PART FOUR: MEASURING CHILD HEALTH; PART FIVE: REPRESENTING CHILDREN IN HEALTH AND SICKNESS; Contributors; Index; 1 North American Perspectives on the History of Child Health in the Twentieth Century; 2 Recent Work on the History of Childhood in Europe; 3 Historiography of Infant and Child Health in Latin America
- 4 AIDS Orphans, Raped Babies, and Suffering Children: The Moral Construction of Childhood in Post-Apartheid South Africa5 Cure and the Contempt of Goodwill: Reason and Feeling in Disability Narratives, 1850-1950: Tools of the Trade; 6 "It's Back": Children with Cancer Talking about Their Illness When Cure Is Not Likely; 7 Size Matters: Medical Experts, Educators, and the Provision of Health Services to Children in Early to Mid-Twentieth Century English Canada; 8 More Than the Names Have Changed: Exploring the Historical Epidemiology of Intellectual Disability in the United States
- 9 Politics, Policy, and the Measuring of Child Health: Child Malnutrition in the Great Depression10 When the Children Are Sick, So Is Society: Dr Norman Bethune and the Montreal Circle of Artists; 11 From the Final Sleep to the First Steps: Postmortem Portraiture and Childhood and Amateur Photography; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-7767-X
- 1-282-86448-3
- 9786612864483
- 0-7735-7458-1
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