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Small Matters : Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900-1940.
Title:
Small Matters : Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900-1940.
Author:
Gleason, Mona.
ISBN:
9780773588547
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Series:
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society ; v.39

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
An innovative study of the struggle for healthy children in early twentieth-century Canada.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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