Title Healing the world's children : interdisciplinary perspectives on health in the twentieth century / edited by Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz

Published Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2008] ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages) : illustrations 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 ; 31. Contents Introduction / Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden and George Weisz -- Part One. Historical perspectives on child health. 1. North American perspectives on the history of child health in the twentieth century / Neil Sutherland -- 2. Recent work on the history of childhood in Europe / Catherine Rollet -- 3. Historiography of infant and child health in Latin America / Anne-Emanualle Birn -- Part Two. Constructing health and disability. 4. AIDS orphans, raped babies, and suffering children : the moral construction of childhood in post-apartheid South Africa / Didier Fassin -- 5. Cure and the contempt of goodwill : reason and feeling in disability narratives, 1850-1950 : tools of the trade / Laurie Block -- Part Three. Hearing children's voices. 6. "It's back" : children with cancer talking about their illness when cure is not likely / Myra Bluebond-Langner and Megan Nordquest Schwallie -- 7. Size matters : medical experts, educators, and the provision of health services to children in early to mid-twentieth century English Canada / Mona Gleason -- Part Four. Measuring child health. 8. More than the names have changed : exploring the historical epidemiology of intellectual disability in the United States / Jeffrey P. Brosco -- 9. Politics, policy, and the measuring of child health : child malnutrition in the Great Depression / Richard A. Meckel -- Part Five. Representing children in health and sickness. 10. When the children are sick, so is society : Dr Norman Bethune and the Montreal circle of artists / Loren Lerner -- 11. From the final sleep to the first steps : postmortem portraiture and childhood and amateur photography / Vincent Lavoie Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Children -- Health and hygiene. Pediatrics. Child health services. Child Health Services Child Welfare -- history Child Welfare History, 20th Century Pediatrics HEALTH & FITNESS -- Children's Health. MEDICAL -- Nursing -- General. Children -- Health and hygiene Pediatrics Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Comacchio, Cynthia R., 1957- editor. Golden, Janet Lynne, 1951- editor. Weisz, George, editor. ISBN 9780773574588 0773574581 1282864483 9781282864481 9786612864483 6612864486

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