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Title Formative years : children's health in the United States, 1880-2000 / edited by Alexandra Minna Stern, Howard Markel
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2002]

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Contents Abraham Jacobi and the origins of scientific pediatrics in America / Russell Viner -- For the welfare of children : the origins of the relationship between U.S. public health workers and pediatricians / Howard Markel -- Technology in the nursery : incubators, ventilators, and the rescue of premature infants / Jeffrey P. Baker -- Weight charts and well child care : when the pediatrician became the expert in child health / Jeffrey P. Brosco -- Better babies contests at the Indiana state fair : child health, scientific motherhood, and eugenics in the midwest, 1920-35 / Alexandra Minna Stern --"I was a teenage dwarf" : the social construction of "normal" adolescent growth and development in the United States / Heather Munro Prescott -- Going to school, getting sick : the social and medical construction of school diseases in the late nineteenth century / Richard Meckel -- Pathway to health : juvenile diabetes and the origins of managerial medicine / Chris Feudtner -- The discovery of child sexual abuse in America / Hughes Evans -- Framework as prison : interpreting fetal alcohol syndrome in the late twentieth century / Janet Golden
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-287)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pediatrics -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Children -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Pediatrics -- history
Child Health Services -- history
Child Welfare -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
MEDICAL -- Pediatrics.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Children's Health.
MEDICAL -- General.
Children -- Health and hygiene
Pediatrics
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Stern, Alexandra Minna, 1966-
Markel, Howard
David Murray Cowie Symposium on the History of Pediatrics and Child Health in America (2000 : Ann Arbor, Mich.)
LC no. 2020706749
ISBN 9780472025039
0472025031