In the Name of the Child (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine) - Hardcover

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9780415057431: In the Name of the Child (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine)
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ISBN 10: 0415057434 ISBN 13: 9780415057431
Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

Recent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around the First World War. It describes how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were shaped and how changes in medical and welfare provisions were closely allied to political and ideological interests.

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About the Author

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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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415057434
ISBN 13 
9780415057431
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304
Editor
Cooter Roger

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ISBN 10:  0415513286 ISBN 13:  9780415513289
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