American Pediatrics : The Social Dynamics of Professionalism 1880–1980 / Sydney A. Halpern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halpern, Sydney A., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Today's parents routinely consult pediatricians for care of sick youngsters, information on child development, and advice on problems of child management. Yet only a hundred years ago, special medical services for children barely existed. During the intervening century, physicians defined a new field and built occupational structures that established pediatrics as a permanent division of medical practice. Professor Halpern traces the development of American pediatrics over the last century and identifies social processes underlying its evolution. How did the pediatric specialty arise? Through what processes did it emerge? What forces shaped its changing scope and organization? In addressing these questions, the author draws on a rich combination of primary and secondary historical sources, unpublished documents, and interview data. She shows how successive generations of specialists redefined pediatrics and created a series of occupational institutions, including professional societies, academic divisions, training programs, and certifying boards. American Pediatrics offers an original approach to the study of medical specialties and professions and contributes a new perspective on professionalism. Showing specialties to be both products and agents of societal change, the book highlights multiple and interrelated forces contributing to the rise of new professions and documents the influence of surrounding occupations on the shape specialties assume. Halpern enriches our understanding of American medicine and clarifies the origins of expert services for children and families. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,

peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Professionalization as Historical Process

3. The Inception of a Medical Specialty

4. Autonomy within American Medical Schools

5. Consolidating the Market for Child-Health Services

6. Birth of a Scientific Subspecialty: Pediatric Endocrinology

7. Resurgence of the Generalist: Psychosocial Pediatrics

8. Concluding Remarks

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520311367

0520311361

OCLC:

1229160964