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Healing the World's ChildrenInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century |
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A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world.
In 1990, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child declared that children's "survival, protection, growth and development in good health and with proper nutrition is the essential foundation of human development." Drawing from many disciplines - history, anthropology, demography, art history, disability studies, and sociology - and across a broad geography, Healing the World's Children sheds light on the medical, political, and cultural dimensions of the efforts to preserve and protect the lives of our most vulnerable citizens.
Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North America to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history.
Taking care to position children at the centre of the analysis, Healing the World's Children provides a unique international and interdisciplinary perspective on a critical twentieth-century project - saving children - that remains a challenge in our own time.
Contributors include Anne-Emanuelle Birn (University of Toronto), Laurie Block (Straight Ahead Pictures & Disability Museum), Myra Bluebond-Langner and Megan Norquest Schwallie (Rutgers), Jeffrey P. Brosco (University of Miami School of Medicine), Didier Fassin (University of Paris North & École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Mona Gleason (UBC), Vincent Lavoie (UQAM), Loren Lerner (Concordia), Richard Meckel (Brown), Catherine Rollet (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), and Neil Sutherland (emeritus, UBC).
Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North America to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history.
Taking care to position children at the centre of the analysis, Healing the World's Children provides a unique international and interdisciplinary perspective on a critical twentieth-century project - saving children - that remains a challenge in our own time.
Contributors include Anne-Emanuelle Birn (University of Toronto), Laurie Block (Straight Ahead Pictures & Disability Museum), Myra Bluebond-Langner and Megan Norquest Schwallie (Rutgers), Jeffrey P. Brosco (University of Miami School of Medicine), Didier Fassin (University of Paris North & École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Mona Gleason (UBC), Vincent Lavoie (UQAM), Loren Lerner (Concordia), Richard Meckel (Brown), Catherine Rollet (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), and Neil Sutherland (emeritus, UBC).
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Part of the McGill-Queen’s/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society (number 31 in series)
324 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773533998
June 2008
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"Essays that seek to include the voices of children are particularly admirable. Healing the World's Children is an original and worthwhile contribution." Geoffrey Reaume, author of Lyndhurst and Remembrance of Patients Past
Cynthia Comacchio, professor of history, Wilfrid Laurier University, is the author of 'Nations Are Built of Babies': Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-40, The Infinite Bonds of Family: Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940, and The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920-50.
Janet Golden is professor of history, Rutgers University, and the author of several books including Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
George Weisz is Cotton-Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, McGill University and the author of several books, including Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization.
Janet Golden is professor of history, Rutgers University, and the author of several books including Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
George Weisz is Cotton-Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, McGill University and the author of several books, including Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization.
Healing the World's Children
Edited by Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz
Table of Contents
xi
Figures and Tables xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz 3
PART ONE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILD HEALTH
1 North American Perspectives on the History of Child Health in the Twentieth Century Neil Sutherland 17
2 Recent Work on the History of Childhood in Europe
Catherine Rollet 50
3 Historiography of Infant and Child Health in Latin America
Anne-Emanuelle Birn 73
PART TWO CONSTRUCTING HEALTH AND DISABILITY
4 aids Orphans, Raped Babies, and Suffering Children: The Moral Construction of Childhood in Post-Apartheid South Africa Didier Fassin 111
5 Cure and the Contempt of Goodwill: Reason and Feeling in Disability Narratives, 1850-1950 Tools of the Trade Laurie Block 125
PART THREE HEARING CHILDREN’S VOICES
6 “It’s Back”: Children with Cancer Talking about Their Illness When Cure Is Not Likely
Myra Bluebond-Langner and Megan Nordquest Schwallie 161
7 Size Matters: Medical Experts, Educators, and the Provision of Health Services to Children in Early to Mid-Twentieth Century English Canada Mona Gleason 176
PART FOUR MEASURING CHILD HEALTH
8 More Than the Names Have Changed: Exploring the Historical Epidemiology of Intellectual Disability in the United States Jeffrey P. Brosco 205
9 Politics, Policy, and the Measuring of Child Health: Child Malnutrition in the Great Depression Richard A. Meckel 235
PART FIVE REPRESENTING CHILDREN IN HEALTH AND SICKNESS
10 When the Children Are Sick, So Is Society: Dr Norman Bethune and the Montreal Circle of Artists Loren Lerner 253
11 From the Final Sleep to the First Steps: Postmortem Portraiture and Childhood and Amateur Photography Vincent Lavoie 282
Contributors 295
Index 297
Edited by Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz
Table of Contents
xi
Figures and Tables xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz 3
PART ONE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILD HEALTH
1 North American Perspectives on the History of Child Health in the Twentieth Century Neil Sutherland 17
2 Recent Work on the History of Childhood in Europe
Catherine Rollet 50
3 Historiography of Infant and Child Health in Latin America
Anne-Emanuelle Birn 73
PART TWO CONSTRUCTING HEALTH AND DISABILITY
4 aids Orphans, Raped Babies, and Suffering Children: The Moral Construction of Childhood in Post-Apartheid South Africa Didier Fassin 111
5 Cure and the Contempt of Goodwill: Reason and Feeling in Disability Narratives, 1850-1950 Tools of the Trade Laurie Block 125
PART THREE HEARING CHILDREN’S VOICES
6 “It’s Back”: Children with Cancer Talking about Their Illness When Cure Is Not Likely
Myra Bluebond-Langner and Megan Nordquest Schwallie 161
7 Size Matters: Medical Experts, Educators, and the Provision of Health Services to Children in Early to Mid-Twentieth Century English Canada Mona Gleason 176
PART FOUR MEASURING CHILD HEALTH
8 More Than the Names Have Changed: Exploring the Historical Epidemiology of Intellectual Disability in the United States Jeffrey P. Brosco 205
9 Politics, Policy, and the Measuring of Child Health: Child Malnutrition in the Great Depression Richard A. Meckel 235
PART FIVE REPRESENTING CHILDREN IN HEALTH AND SICKNESS
10 When the Children Are Sick, So Is Society: Dr Norman Bethune and the Montreal Circle of Artists Loren Lerner 253
11 From the Final Sleep to the First Steps: Postmortem Portraiture and Childhood and Amateur Photography Vincent Lavoie 282
Contributors 295
Index 297
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