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In the Name of the Child: Health and Welfare, 1880-1940 (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine)

In the Name of the Child: Health and Welfare, 1880-1940 (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine)

by RogerCooter (Editor)

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    Hardcover 1992

    $139.18
Synopsis

Recent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around the First World War. It describes how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were shaped and how changes in medical and welfare provisions were closely allied to political and ideological interests.

$139.18

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 304
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05 Mar 1992
ISBN 10: 0415057434
ISBN 13: 9780415057431

Media Reviews
'All essays are invaluable and provide a rich and informative source not only for those working on childhood and in the field of health and welfare, but also for those interested in wider questions about the nature of society and its cultural, political, and social relationships.' - Social History of Medicine

'In short, the best essays in this collection offer a model of scholarship that grounds the insights of cultrual studies in attention to specific group, institutional, and professional dynamics. And in doing so, they make a needed and provocative contribution to the histories both of medicine and of child welfare.' - Bulletin of the History of Medicine

' [An] oustandingly rich and serious collection of essays.' - Sociology of Health and Illness