Book ID: CBB001550435

Worth Saving: Disabled Children during the Second World War (2013)

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Wheatcroft, Sue (Author)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xvi + 203 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Early in the war, when faced with an acute shortage of accommodation for evacuees, a government official questioned whether disabled children were 'worth saving'. This book examines how the evacuation in England was planned, executed and evaluated for children with various disabilities (including the 'excluded') and explores how this wartime experience influenced public and professional attitudes towards the children long after the war had ended. Through the use of official documents, newspapers and personal testimony, the book illustrates both positive and negative experiences of the government evacuation scheme, and shows the impact of the attitudes held by the authorities, the general public, and the teaching and nursing staff. It demonstrates how wartime conditions changed special education, both during and after the war, and will appeal to social and medical historians, as well as those studying childhood, the voluntary sector and social policy.

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Authors & Contributors
Audra Jennings
Timmins, Nicholas
E. M. Jones
Claudia Pancino
Hampton, Jameel
Mac Lellan, Anne
Concepts
World War II
Children
Medicine
Children's diseases
Medicine and ethics
Disabilities; disability; accessibility
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century, late
19th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Germany
England
Spain
Norway
Institutions
Disablement Income Group (DIG)
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
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