Formative years
Subtitle: children's health in the United States, 1880-2000
By: edited by Alexandra Minna Stern, Howard Markel.
Contributors: Stern, Alexandra.; Markel, Howard.; David Murray Cowie Symposium on the History of Pediatrics and Child Health in America (2000 : Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Pediatrics -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Children -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Pediatrics -- history -- United States -- Congresses.; Child Health Services -- history -- United States -- Congresses.; Child Welfare -- history -- United States -- Congresses.; History of Medicine, 19th Cent. -- United States -- Congresses.; History of Medicine, 20th Cent. -- United States -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Updated and edited papers from the David Murray Cowie Symposium on the History of Pediatrics and Child Health in America, held Sept. 2000 in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Bibliography: p. 283-287.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Abraham Jacobi and the origins of scientific pediatrics in America / Russell Viner; title: For the welfare of children : the origins of the relationship between U.S. public health workers and pediatricians / Howard Markel; title: Technology in the nursery : incubators, ventilators, and the rescue of premature infants / Jeffrey P. Baker; title: Weight charts and well child care : when the pediatrician became the expert in child health / Jeffrey P. Brosco; title: Better babies contests at the Indiana state fair : child health, scientific motherhood, and eugenics in the midwest, 1920-35 / Alexandra Minna Stern; title: "I was a teenage dwarf" : the social construction of "normal" adolescent growth and development in the United States / Heather Munro Prescott; title: Going to school, getting sick : the social and medical construction of school diseases in the late nineteenth century / Richard Meckel; title: Pathway to health : juvenile diabetes and the origins of managerial medicine / Chris Feudtner; title: The discovery of child sexual abuse in America / Hughes Evans; title: Framework as prison : interpreting fetal alcohol syndrome in the late twentieth century / Janet Golden.