Book ID: CBB242652598

Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health, and the Modern University (2015)

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In the early twentieth century, university administrators and educators regarded bodily health as a marker of an individual’s moral and mental strength and as a measure of national vitality. Beset by social anxieties about the physical and moral health of their students, they introduced compulsory health services and physical education programs in order to shape their students’ character. Tending the Student Body examines the development of these health programs at Canadian universities and the transformation of their goals over the first half of the twentieth century from fostering moral character to promoting individualism, self-realization, and mental health. Drawing on extensive records from Canadian universities, Catherine Gidney examines the gender and class dynamics of these programs, their relationship to changes in medical and intellectual thought, and their contribution to ideas about the nature and fulfilment of the self. Her research will be of interest to historians of medicine, gender, sport, and higher education.

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Authors & Contributors
Aikins, Ross D.
Friedlander, Judith
Russell, Jason
Otterson, L.
Bielefeldt, Angela R.
Nathan E. Canney
Concepts
Education
Universities and colleges
Societies; institutions; academies
Science education and teaching
Social sciences
Public health
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Canada
Brazil
Bath (England)
Toronto (Ontario)
England
Institutions
New School for Social Research
Imperial College, University of London
State University of New York
Imperial College
Bath University
Katholieke Universiteit Brabant (Netherlands)
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