"Nations Are Built of Babies" documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and aided by the increasingly important position of experts in Canadian society, the medical profession tackled the "national tragedy" of infant and maternal mortality by advocating "scientific motherhood." Canadian mothers were believed to be handicapped by an ignorance that could be remedied only through expert tutoring and supervision of child-rearing duties. Working within a Marxist-feminist...
"Nations Are Built of Babies" documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth centu...
The history of the family is a relatively new, yet rapidly developing area of academic study. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada.
According to Comacchio, the social anxiety resulting from an ongoing perception of the family as being 'in crisis' has had a significant influence on evolving social policy. Comacchio shows how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war. Her many stories of individual families highlight both historical trends...
The history of the family is a relatively new, yet rapidly developing area of academic study. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first ...
The history of the family is a relatively new, yet rapidly developing area of academic study. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada.
According to Comacchio, the social anxiety resulting from an ongoing perception of the family as being 'in crisis' has had a significant influence on evolving social policy. Comacchio shows how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war. Her many stories of individual families highlight both historical trends...
The history of the family is a relatively new, yet rapidly developing area of academic study. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first ...
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.The essays range from historical overviews and...
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 p...
A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world. It sheds light on the medical, political, and cultural dimensions of the efforts to preserve and protect the lives of our most vulnerable citizens.
A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world. It sheds light on the medical, political,...
