Book ID: CBB000201631

Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000 (2002)

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Stern, Alexandra Minna (Editor)
Markel, Howard (Editor)


University of Michigan Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xvi + 304 pp., illus.
Language: English

Description Contents: Russell *Viner, Abraham Jacobi and the Origins of Scientific Pediatrics in America; Howard *Markel, For the Welfare of Children: The Origins of the Relationship between U.S. Public Health Workers and Pediatricians; Jeffrey P. *Baker, Technology in the Nursery: Incubators, Ventilators, and the Rescue of Premature Infants; Jeffrey P. *Brosco, Weight Charts and Well Child Care: When the Pediatrician Became the Expert in Child Health; Alexandra Minna *Stern, Better Babies Contests at the Indiana State Fair: Child Health, Scientific Motherhood, and Eugenics in the Midwest, 1920-35; Heather Munro *Prescott, “I was a Teenage Dwarf”: The Social Construction of “Normal” Adolescent Growth and Development in the United States; Richard *Meckel, Going to School, Getting Sick: The Social and Medical Construction of School Diseases in the Late Nineteenth Century; Chris *Feudtner, Pathway to Health: Juvenile Diabetes and the Origins of Managerial Medicine; Hughes *Evans, The Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse in America; Janet *Golden, Framework as Prison: Interpreting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Late Twentieth Century.


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Review Marshall, Dominique (2004) Review of "Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000". Social History of Medicine (p. 315). unapi

Review Hawes, Joseph (2004) Review of "Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 151). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Oliva, Paolo Riccardo
Yamaan Saadeh
Kupfer, Charles D.
Bewley, Susan
Cecala, Rebecca K.
Patrizia Cincinnati
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Vesalius
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Journal of Medical Biography
Journal of Economic History
Indiana Magazine of History
Publishers
Cierre edizioni
Brewin Books
Società Editrice Universo
SilverWood
Adelphi University
University of Massachusetts Press
Concepts
Medicine
Public health
Pediatrics
Children's diseases
Infant health services
Children
People
Mary Mallon
Baker, Sara Josephine
Vaughan, Victor Clarence
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
United States
Italy
Birmingham (England)
Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.)
Midwestern states (U.S.)
New England (U.S.)
Institutions
Sociedad Española de Higiene
General Medical Council (Great Britain)
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