In the Name of the Child

List of contents

List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Preface and acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION, 1 BODIES, FIGURES AND PHYSIOLOGY: MARGARET MCMILLAN AND THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY REMAKING OF WORKING-CLASS CHILDHOOD, 2 CHILD LABOUR, MEDICAL CAPITAL, AND THE SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICE, c. 1890–1918, 3 ‘WONDERLANDS OF BUTTERCUP, CLOVER AND DAISIES’: TUBERCULOSIS AND THE OPEN-AIR SCHOOL MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN, 1907–39, 4 ORPHANS AS GUINEA PIGS: AMERICAN CHILDREN AND MEDICAL EXPERIMENTERS, 1890–1930, 5 FROM ISOLATION TO THERAPY: CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS AND DIPHTHERIA IN FIN DE SIÈCLE PARIS, LONDON AND BERLIN, 6 CLEVELAND IN HISTORY: THE ABUSED CHILD AND CHILD PROTECTION, 1880–1914, 7 FROM BODIES TO MINDS IN CHILDCARE LITERATURE: ADVICE TO PARENTS IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN, 8 WISHES, ANXIETIES, PLAY, AND GESTURES: CHILD GUIDANCE IN INTER-WAR ENGLAND, 9 DARKLY THROUGH A LENS: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF THE AFRICAN CHILD IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH, 1900–45, 10 WELFARE, WAGES AND THE FAMILY: CHILD ENDOWMENT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, 1900–50, Index

About the author

Roger Cooter is Senior Research Officer at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester, and one of the editors of Social History of Medicine. The author of The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science (1984), Phrenology in the British Isles (1989), and Surgery and Society in Peace and War, 1880– 1948 (1993). He has also edited Studies in the History of Alternative Medicine (1988).

Summary

In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political construction of the child, and descrives how medical and welfare initiatives of the time were closely allied to politcal and ideological interests.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Cooter
• Assisted by: Roger Cooter (Editor), Cooter Roger (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.1992
• EAN: 9780415057431
• ISBN: 978-0-415-05743-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; 20th Century, 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 and cultural history, Child welfare, Child welfare and youth services