Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century

by Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, George Weisz

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773577671
Publisher:	MQUP
Publication date:	06/26/2008
Series:	McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society , #33
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	324
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Cynthia Comacchio, professor of history, Wilfrid Laurier University, is the author of 'Nations Are Built of Babies': Saving Ontario’s Mothers and Children, 1900-40, The Infinite Bonds of Family: Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940, and The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920-50.

Janet Golden is professor of history, Rutgers University, and the author of several books including Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

George Weisz is Cotton-Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, McGill University and the author of several books, including Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization.

Janet Golden is professor of history, Rutgers University, and the author of several books including Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

George Weisz is Cotton-Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, McGill University and the author of several books, including Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization.