Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1. Pediatrics as a Specialty -- Abraham Jacobi and the Origins of Scienti‹c Pediatrics in America -- For the Welfare of Children: The Origins of the Relationship between U.S. Public Health Workers and Pediatricians -- Technology in the Nursery: Incubators, Ventilators, and the Rescue of Premature Infants -- Part 2. Standardizing the Child -- Weight Charts and Well Child Care: When the Pediatrician Became the Expert in Child Health -- Better Babies Contests at the Indiana State Fair: Child Health, Scienti‹c Motherhood, and Eugenics in the Midwest, 1920-35 -- "I Was a Teenage Dwarf": The Social Construction of "Normal" Adolescent Growth and Development in the United States -- Part 3. "Discovering" New Diseases in Children -- Going to School, Getting Sick: The Social and Medical Construction of School Diseases in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Pathway to Health: Juvenile Diabetes and the Origins of Managerial Medicine -- The Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse in America -- Framework as Prison: Interpreting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Late Twentieth Century -- Bibliography and Suggested Reading -- Index.