Name: Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century By Volume editor Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
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Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century by Volume editor Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

The health and welfare of children became an area of concern and action in the early decades of the twentieth century. This concern would develop an ever-broader remit during the course of the century, moving from anxiety about high death rates, physical health and the 'unfit', to embrace all children and the mental health and the psychological well-being of individuals. This volume emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch Workshop held at the University of Warwick in July 1999, and is the first book to explore child health in the twentieth century in a comparative perspective, focussing on such issues as the link between child health and citizenship, the impact of ideas concerning degeneracy, socialisation, consumerism and children's rights, and the role of the family, state and experts in mediating child health.

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...a valuable collection of scholarly, but highly readable reflections on the evolution of adult attitudes toward children and in practices involving or affecting children in two 'developed' countries. - in: The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2005 The essays in this book... raise interesting issues. - in: The Social History of Medicine, Vol. 17, 2004 The history of children's health covers a multiplicity of subject areas and this volume is no exception... Child health does appear to be developing its own specific historiography and this volume is an important contribution. - in: Medical History, Vol 48, No. 3, July 2004 ... a fine collection of essays [...] an interesting volume, which provides new thoughts on the history of childhood and children 'as being school-aged' - in: Medicina & Storia, Vol. 7, 2004

About Volume editor Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra is Professor of Social and cultural History at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on the granting of asylum in the Dutch Republic, deviance and tolerance, witchcraft and cultures of misfortune in the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, the reception of homoeopathy in the Netherlands, and on women and alternative health care un the Netherlands in the twentieth century. She recently edited, Remedies: Drugs, Medicines and contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American Healing Cultures (Rodopi, 2002), and with Roy Porter, Cultures of Neurasthenia from beard to the First World War (Rodopi, 2001). She is currently working on the history of psychiatry and mental health care in the Netherlands in the twentieth century. Hilary Marlandis Reader in History and Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. She is former editor of Social History of Medicine, and has published on midwifery and childbirth in the Netherlands, nineteenth-century medical practice, women and medicine, and infant and maternal welfare. She is currently working on puerperal insanity in nineteenth-century Britain and preparing a monograph study, Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in the Nineteenth Century.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1 Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century Hilary Marland and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra 2 Vigorous, Pure and Vulnerable: Child Health and Citizenship in the Netherlands Since the End of the Nineteenth Century Ido de Haan 3 Child Health, National Fitness, and Physical Education in Britain, 1900-1940 John Welshman 4 Educational Reform, Citizenship and the Origins of the School Medical Service Bernard Harris 5 Child Health, Commerce and Family Values: The Domestic Production of the Middle Class in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Britain Lyubov G. Gurjeva 6 Health and the Medicalisation of Advice to Parents in the Netherlands, 1890-1950 Nelleke Bakker 7 'Grown-up Children': Understandings of Health and Mental Deficiency in Edwardian England Mark Jackson

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Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century by Volume editor Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

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Volume editor Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

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20030101

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Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century Volume editor Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century by Volume editor Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

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Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century by Volume editor Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

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