Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
This volume 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 childrens rights, and the role of the family, state and experts in mediating child health.
”…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
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.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789042010444 |
| ISBN 10 | 9042010444 |
| Title | Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century |
| Author | Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra |
| Series | Clio Medica |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2003-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 318 |
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