Doctored Bodies Professional Medical Discourse and Children’s Embodied Difference

Turn-of-the-twentieth-century attention to public health and the reduction of infant mortality put the spotlight on the health needs of children in unprecedented public ways. Interest in children as a special medical population grew from these concerted efforts and then expanded to include the rise...

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Published inSmall Matters Vol. 39; pp. 21 - 45
Main Author Gleason, Mona
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Canada MQUP 2013
McGill-Queen's University Press
Subjects
Biological sciences
Biology
Child abuse
Child neglect
Childhood
Children
Crimes against the person
Criminal law
Criminal offenses
Developmental biology
Diseases
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
Health and wellness
Health sciences
Human developmental stages
Human populations
Infant mortality
Infants
Labor economics
Law
Medical conditions
Medical personnel
Medical specialties
Mortality
Nurses
Occupations
Pathology
Pediatrics
Persons
Population studies
Public health
Social sciences
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Summary:Turn-of-the-twentieth-century attention to public health and the reduction of infant mortality put the spotlight on the health needs of children in unprecedented public ways. Interest in children as a special medical population grew from these concerted efforts and then expanded to include the rise of pediatrics, mass education campaigns dealing with sanitation and hygiene, and the promotion of disease prevention. Eager to bring the science of hygiene to rapidly growing cities, health officials promoted cleanliness, proper sanitation, and contagious disease control as a matter of public protection. Children were both the targets of, and eager participants in, campaigns to rid
ISBN:0773541322
9780773541320
DOI:10.1515/9780773588547-003