In the Name of the Child

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-51328-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the crucial decades around the First World War when modern notions of `the child' were elaborated and widely institutionalised.
In essays specially written for the book, the contributors describe how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were shaped and how changes in medical and welfare provision were allied to political and ideological interests. Chapters concentrate on the medical invasion of schools, the use of children for medical experiments in American orphanages, how medical intervention gave new priorities in health care, and the construction of child abuse before 1914. Taken as a whole, the book shows clearly how wider moral, political, class and gender interests were imposed on children.
The essays bridge the gap between traditional histories of medicine and welfare, and the social, intellectual and cultural history of childhood. They lay the foundation for understanding contemporary conflicts and concerns about the child, and will appeal not only to those interested in childhood studies and in the history of medicine, psychology, social policy and welfare, but also to students of the culture of modernisation between the 1880s and 1940s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooter, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).