ABSTRACT
Recent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around the First World War. It describes how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were shaped and how changes in medical and welfare provisions were closely allied to political and ideological interests.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|26 pages
Bodies, Figures and Physiology
Margaret McMillan and the late nineteenth-century remaking of working-class childhood
chapter 3|24 pages
‘Wonderlands of Buttercup, Clover and Daisies'
Tuberculosis and the open-air school movement in Britain, 1907–39
chapter 5|22 pages
From Isolation to Therapy
Children's hospitals and diphtheria in fin de siècle Paris, London and Berlin
chapter 7|26 pages
From Bodies to Minds in Childcare Literature
Advice to parents in inter-war Britain
chapter 9|24 pages
Darkly Through a Lens
Changing perceptions of the African child in sickness and health, 1900–1945
chapter 10|32 pages
Welfare, Wages and the Family
Child endowment in comparative perspective, 1900–50
