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Title Healing the world's children : interdisciplinary perspectives on child 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 xiv, 307 pages : illustrations, portrait
Series McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; v. 31
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; v. 31
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, -- and George Weisz 3 -- PART ONE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- ON CHILD HEALTH -- r North American Perspectives on the History of Child Health -- in the Twentieth Century Neil Sutherland 17 -- 2 Recent Work on the History of Childhood in Europe -- Catherine Rollet 50o -- 3 Historiography of Infant and Child Health in Latin America -- Anne-Emanuelle Birn 73 -- 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 rr -- 5 Cure and the Contempt of Goodwill: Reason and Feeling in Disability -- Narratives, 185o0-95o -- Tools of the Trade Laurie Block 2z5 -- "6 "It's Back": Children with Cancer Talking about Their Illness -- When Cure Is Not Likely -- Myra Bluebond-Langner and Megan Nordquest -- Schwallie 16i -- 7 Size Matters: Medical Experts, Educators, and the Provision -- of Health Services to Children in Early to -- Mid-Twentieth Century English Canada Mona Gleason 176 -- 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 205 -- 9 Politics, Policy, and the Measuring of Child Health: -- Child Malnutrition in the Great Depression -- Richard A. Meckel 235 -- PART FIVE REPRESENTING CHILDREN -- IN HEALTH AND SICKNESS -- io When the Children Are Sick, So Is Society: Dr Norman Bethune -- and the Montreal Circle of Artists Loren Lerner 253 -- ii From the Final Sleep to the First Steps: Postmortem Portraiture -- and Childhood and Amateur Photography Vincent Lavoie 282 -- Contributors z95
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Children -- Health and hygiene.
Pediatrics.
Child Welfare.
Child Health Services.
Child Welfare -- history.
History, 20th Century.
Author Comacchio, Cynthia R., 1957-
Golden, Janet Lynne, 1951-
Weisz, George.
LC no. 2009285443
ISBN 9780773533998 cloth alkaline paper
0773533990 cloth alkaline paper
9780773534001 paper alkaline paper
0773534008 paper alkaline paper