In the name of the child health and welfare, 1880-1940 - Cooter, Roger; T&F eBooks; Society for the Social History of Medicine; British Paediatric Association (London ; New York : Routledge, 1992)
1. Bodies, figures and physiology : Margaret McMillan and the late nineteenth-century remaking of working-class childhood / Carolyn Steedman -- 2. Child labour, medical capital, and the school medical service, c. 1890-1918 / Harry Hendrick -- 3. "Wonderlands of buttercup, clover and daisies" : tuberculosis and the open-air school movement in Britain, 1907-39 / Linda Bryder -- 4. Orphans as guinea pigs : American children and medical experimenters, 1890-1930 / Susan E. Lederer -- 5. From isolation to therapy : children's hospitals and diphtheria in fin de siècle Paris, London and Berlin / Paul Weindling -- 6. Cleveland in history : the abused child and child protection, 1880-1914 / Harry Ferguson -- 7. From bodies to minds in childcare literature : advice to parents in inter-war Britain / Cathy Urwin and Elaine Sharland -- 8. Wishes, anxieties, play, and gestures : child guidance in inter-war England / Deborah Thom -- 9. Darkly through a lens : changing perceptions of the African child in sickness and health, 1900-45 / Jennifer Beinart -- 10. Welfare, wages and the family : child endowment in comparative perspective, 1900-50 / John Macnicol.
Originated in a conference held at the Institute of Historical Research in Oct. 1987, sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the British Paediatric Association.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available in print edition.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Children -- Health and hygiene -- History; Child welfare -- History; Electronic books