Article ID: CBB001252790

A Radical Proposition: The Brief but Exceptional History of the Seattle School Clinic, 1914--21 (2013)

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This article examines the history of the Seattle school clinic (1914--21) and the efforts of public school administrators to institutionalize a full-service medical program for poor and working class children. At its height, thirty-six volunteer physicians and thirteen partially paid dentists organized within nine departments performed a range of diagnostic and corrective surgical procedures, including tonsillectomies, circumcisions, and eye surgeries. These practices were not funded by other public school systems across the United States, almost all of which delineated between prevention and treatment services. This article explains the exceptional nature of the clinic, examines the institutional tensions instigated by the expression of medical authority within the schools, and considers how clinic technologies influenced state--school--child relations.

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Description An effort to “institutionalize a full-service medical program for poor and working class children.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Levene, Alysa
Tanya Hart
Giuseppe Sparnacci
Petitclerc, Martin
Cinzia Buccianti
Martina Semboloni
Concepts
Public health
Hospitals and clinics
Poverty
Children
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
15th century
Renaissance
20th century
Places
England
London (England)
United States
Italy
Philadelphia, PA
Lisbon (Portugal)
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