Title Small matters : Canadian children in sickness and health, 1900-1940 / Mona Gleason

Published Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource Series McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health and society, 1198-4503 ; 39 McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 39. Contents Introduction: The Intimate Landscape of Health in the History of Children and Childhood -- 1 Doctored Bodies: Professional Medical Discourse and Children's Embodied Difference -- 2 Florence, Marc, Alice, and Theresa: Healthy Bodies and Domestic Doctoring, 1910s to the 1920s -- 3 Shirley, Lily, Jack, and Lina: Healthy Bodies and Domestic Doctoring, 1920s to the 1940s -- 4 Learning the Body: Schools, Curriculum, and Health -- 5 Treated Bodies: Hospitalization -- 6 Reforming the Body: Doctors, Educators, and Attitudes Towards Disability in Childhood -- Conclusion: Small Matters: Historical Meaning and Children's Embodiment -- Appendices. 1 Causes of Infant Death in Canada -- 2 Participant Information -- 3 My Health Record Summary What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mona Gleason explores how medical professionals, lay practitioners, and parents understood young patients and how children responded. During the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in the interwar decades, a number of changes took shape within the field of child healthcare - the rise of pediatrics as a medical profession, efforts to ameliorate maternal and infant mortality rates, and the shift of focus from controlling contagious diseases to the prevention of illness. Gleason makes use of oral histories throughout this period of health and welfare reform to shed new light on children's attitudes toward their medical treatment, their largely unexplored experiences of hospitalization and disability, and the importance of teachers and health curriculum to the development of "healthy habits." By focusing on children's medical treatment beyond the doctor's office, and by paying particular attention to the experience of marginalized children, Gleason makes a major contribution to the history of Canadian childhood and healthcare. The first work of its kind, Small Matters explores how children faced death, endured illness, and learned to be healthy in the context of their families and communities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Children -- Health and hygiene -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Child health services -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Physician and patient. Pediatrics -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Child Health Services -- history Pediatrics -- history History, 20th Century Physician-Patient Relations HEALTH & FITNESS -- Children's Health. MEDICAL -- History. Child health services Children -- Health and hygiene Pediatrics Physician and patient SUBJECT Canada Subject Canada Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773588547 077358854X 9780773588554 0773588558

Other Titles Canadian children in sickness and health, 1900-1940

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