Six original essays reflect the growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood and youth, particularly issues affecting child health and welfare. These important new essays show how changing patterns of health and disease have responded to and shaped notions of childhood and adolescence as life stages.
Until the early 20th century, life-threatening illnesses were a sinister presence in the lives of children of all social classes. Today, many diseases and threats to child health have been eliminated or alleviated. Yet critical problems remain. New threats such as AIDS and violence take a steady toll. Child health remains an active concern for all families. Despite the development of health care policies, social welfare policies, and effective medication, the home remains―as it was in the Colonial period―the most critical site of care. Parents are still central to the preservation of children's health. This work imposes a holistic view of this experience for children and families. By examining the child's perspective of illness, the authors make an important contribution to the understanding of illness as part of the developmental process of growing up.

Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide (Children and Youth: History and Culture)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Prescott, Heather Munro

GOLDEN, JANET

Meckel, Richard

Reference

Greenwood

A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle examines the intersection of medical science, social theory, and cultural practices as they shaped relations among wet nurses, physicians, and families from the colonial period through the twentieth century. It explores how Americans used wet nursing to solve infant feeding problems, shows why wet nursing became controversial as motherhood slowly became medicalized, and elaborates how the development of scientific infant feeding eliminated wet nursing by the beginning of the twentieth century. Janet Golden's study contributes to our understanding of the cultural authority of medical science, the role of physicians in shaping child rearing practices, the social construction of motherhood, and the profound dilemmas of class and culture that played out in the private space of the nursery.

A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)

Cambridge University Press

Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

A generation has passed since a physician first noticed that women who drank heavily while pregnant gave birth to underweight infants with disturbing tell-tale characteristics. Women whose own mothers enjoyed martinis while pregnant now lost sleep over a bowl of rum raisin ice cream. In Message in a Bottle, Janet Golden charts the course of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) through the courts, media, medical establishment, and public imagination. 
 Long considered harmless during pregnancy (doctors even administered it intravenously during labor), alcohol, when consumed by pregnant women, increasingly appeared to be a potent teratogen and a pressing public health concern. Some clinicians recommended that women simply moderate alcohol consumption; others, however, claimed that there was no demonstrably safe level for a developing fetus, and called for complete abstinence. Even as the diagnosis gained acceptance and labels appeared on alcoholic beverages warning pregnant women of the danger, FAS began to be de-medicalized in some settings. More and more, FAS emerged in court cases as a viable defense for people charged with serious, even capital, crimes and their claims were rejected. 
 Golden argues that the reaction to FAS was shaped by the struggle over women's relatively new abortion rights and the escalating media frenzy over "crack" babies. It was increasingly used as evidence of the moral decay found within marginalized communities--from inner-city neighborhoods to Indian reservations. With each reframing, FAS became a currency traded by politicians and political commentators, lawyers, public health professionals, and advocates for underrepresented minorities, each pursuing separate aims.

Harvard University Press

A generation has passed since a physician first noticed that women who drank heavily while pregnant gave birth to underweight infants with disturbing tell-tale characteristics. Women whose own mothers enjoyed martinis while pregnant now lost sleep over a bowl of rum raisin ice cream. In Message in a Bottle, Janet Golden charts the course of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) through the courts, media, medical establishment, and public imagination. 
Long considered harmless during pregnancy (doctors even administered it intravenously during labor), alcohol, when consumed by pregnant women, increasingly appeared to be a potent teratogen and a pressing public health concern. Some clinicians recommended that women simply moderate alcohol consumption; others, however, claimed that there was no demonstrably safe level for a developing fetus, and called for complete abstinence. Even as the diagnosis gained acceptance and labels appeared on alcoholic beverages warning pregnant women of the danger, FAS began to be de-medicalized in some settings. More and more, FAS emerged in court cases as a viable defense for people charged with serious, even capital, crimes and their claims were rejected. 
Golden argues that the reaction to FAS was shaped by the struggle over women's relatively new abortion rights and the escalating media frenzy over "crack" babies. It was increasingly used as evidence of the moral decay found within marginalized communities--from inner-city neighborhoods to Indian reservations. With each reframing, FAS became a currency traded by politicians and political commentators, lawyers, public health professionals, and advocates for underrepresented minorities, each pursuing separate aims.

A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world.

Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century (Volume 33) (McGill-Queen’s/AMS Healthcare ... the History of Medicine, Health, and Society)

Medical Books

Weisz, George

Comacchio, Cynthia

Administration & Medicine Economics

McGill-Queen's University Press

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 American 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 &amp; 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 &amp; Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales), Mona Gleason (UBC), Vincent Lavoie (UQAM), Loren Lerner (Concordia), Richard Meckel (Brown), Catherine Rollet (Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), and Neil Sutherland (emeritus, UBC).

Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century (McGill-Queen’s/Associated ... of Medicine, Health, and Society) (Volume 33)

History

From the days of its colonial glory, Philadelphia has had an important place in the history of American health care. In Pictures of Health, Janet Golden and Charles E. Rosenberg have assembled a series of photographs illuminating that history.

Pictures of Health: A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860-1945 (Anniversary Collection)

Rosenberg, Charles E.

University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection

From the days of its colonial glory, Philadelphia has had an important place in the history of American health care. In Pictures of Health, Janet Golden and Charles E. Rosenberg have assembled a series of photographs illuminating that history.

A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle examines the intersection of medical science, social theory, and cultural practices as they shaped relations among wet nurses, physicians, and families from the colonial period through the twentieth century. It explores how Americans used wet nursing to solve infant feeding problems, shows why wet nursing became controversial as motherhood slowly became medicalized, and elaborates how the development of scientific infant feeding eliminated wet nursing by the beginning of the twentieth century. Janet Golden's study contributes to our understanding of the cultural authority of medical science, the role of physicians in shaping child rearing practices, the social construction of motherhood, and the profound dilemmas of class and culture that played out in the private space of the nursery.

SOCIAL HISTORY OF WET NURSING IN AMERICA: FROM BREAST TO BOTTLE (WOMEN & HEALTH C&S PERSPECTIVE)

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Ohio State University Press

Placing babies' lives at the center of her narrative, historian Janet Golden analyzes the dramatic transformations in the lives of American babies during the twentieth century. She examines how babies shaped American society and culture and led their families into the modern world to become more accepting of scientific medicine, active consumers, open to new theories of human psychological development, and welcoming of government advice and programs. Importantly Golden also connects the reduction in infant mortality to the increasing privatization of American lives. She also examines the influence of cultural traditions and religious practices upon the diversity of infant lives, exploring the ways class, race, region, gender, and community shaped life in the nursery and household.

Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century

Americas

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Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide (Children and Youth: History and Culture)

A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)

Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century (Volume 33) (McGill-Queen’s/AMS Healthcare ... the History of Medicine, Health, and Society)

Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century (McGill-Queen’s/Associated ... of Medicine, Health, and Society) (Volume 33)

Pictures of Health: A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860-1945 (Anniversary Collection)

Pictures of Health: A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860-1945 (Anniversary Collection)

SOCIAL HISTORY OF WET NURSING IN AMERICA: FROM BREAST TO BOTTLE (WOMEN & HEALTH C&S PERSPECTIVE)

Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century