Small Matters
Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900-1940
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2013
200 pages
978-0-7735-8854-7 (ISBN)
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An innovative study of the struggle for healthy children in early twentieth-century Canada.
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Gleason Mona:
Mona Gleason is a historian in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.Mona Gleason is a historian in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Mona Gleason is a historian in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.Mona Gleason is a historian in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Content
- Cover
- McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- INTRODUCTION - The Intimate Landscape of Health in the History of Children and Childhood
- 1- Doctored Bodies: Professional Medical Discourse and Children's Embodied Difference
- 2 - Florence, Marc, Alice, and Theresa: Healthy Bodies and Domestic Doctoring, 1910s to the 1920s
- 3 - Shirley, Lily, Jack, and Lina: Healthy Bodies and Domestic Doctoring, 1920s to the 1940s
- 4 - Learning the Body: Schools, Curriculum, and Health
- 5 - Treated Bodies: Hospitalization
- 6 - Reforming the Body: Doctors, Educators, and Attitudes Towards Disability in Childhood
- CONCLUSION - Small Matters: Historical Meaningand Children's Embodiment
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX ONE - Causes of Infant Death in Canada, for five-year periods, 1921-50*
- APPENDIX TWO - Participant Information
- APPENDIX THREE - My Health Record
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
