Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850-1979 - Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine: Volume 8

Informationen zum Autor Anne Borsay, Pamela Dale Klappentext This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The essays follow a chronological progression while focusing on the practices in a number of different countries. Zusammenfassung This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The essays follow a chronological progression while focusing on the practices in a number of different countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Disabled Children – Contested Caring, Anne Borsay, Pamela Dale; Chapter 1 Club Feet and Charity: Children at the House of Charity, Soho, 1848–1914, Pat Starkey; Chapter 2 Insanity, Family and Community in Late-Victorian Britain, Amy Rebok Rosenthal; Chapter 3 The Mixed Economy of Welfare and the Care of Sick and Disabled Children in the South Wales Coalfield, c. 1850–1950, Steven Thompson; Chapter 4 The Question of Oralism and the Experiences of Deaf Children, 1880–1914, Mike Mantin; Chapter 5 Exploring Patient Experience In An Australian Institution For Children With Learning Disabilities, 1887–1933, Lee-Ann Monk, Corinne Manning; Chapter 6 From Representation to Experience: Disability in the British Advice Literature for Parents, 1890–1980, Anne Borsay; Chapter 7 Treating Children with Nonpulmonary Tuberculosis in Sweden: Apelviken, c. 1900–30, Staffan Förhammar, Marie C. Nelson; Chapter 8 Health Visiting and Disability Issues in England Before 1948, Pamela Dale; Chapter 9 Spanish Health Services and Polio Epidemics in the Twentieth Century: the ‘Discovery’ of a New Group of Disabled People, 1920–70, José Martínez-Pérez, María Isabel Porras, María José Báguena, Rosa Ballester; Chapter 10 Cured by Kindness? Child Guidance Services during the Second World War, Sue Wheatcroft; Chapter 11 Education, Training and Social Competence: Special Education in Glasgow Since 1945, Angela Turner; Chapter 12 Hyperactivity and American History, 1957–Present: Challenges to and Opportunities for Understanding, Matthew Smith;...

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• Authors: Anne Borsay, Borsay Anne, Pamela Dale
• Assisted by: Anne Borsay (Editor), Pamela Dale (Editor)
• Publisher: Pickering and Chatto (publishers) Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9781848933613
• ISBN: 978-1-84893-361-3
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine; Studies for the Society for th; Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book; 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social welfare & social services, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Social welfare and social services, Disability: social aspects