In the Name of the Child

ISBN-13: 9780415057431 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 304 str.

Roger Cooter

Opis

Recent revelations of child abuse in Britain 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 crucial decades around World War I when modern notions of the child were elaborated and widely institutionalized.

Recenzje

'All essays are invaluable and provide a rich and informative source not only for those working on childhood and in the field of health and welfare, but also for those interested in wider questions about the nature of society and its cultural, political, and social relationships.' – Social History of Medicine

'In short, the best essays in this collection offer a model of scholarship that grounds the insights of cultrual studies in attention to specific group, institutional, and professional dynamics. And in doing so, they make a needed and provocative contribution to the histories both of medicine and of child welfare.' – Bulletin of the History of Medicine

' [An] oustandingly rich and serious collection of essays.' – Sociology of Health and Illness

O autorze

Roger Cooter