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In the Name of the Child

by Roger Cooter
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780415513289
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 304
  • Original Price: GBP 50.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 354 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Health Care Delivery

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 ofthe 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.

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).

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