Science in the service of children, 1893-1935 / Alice Boardman Smuts ; with the assistance of Robert W. Smuts ... [et al.].

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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:xiv, 381 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Three movements, one goal
  • Save the child and save the nation : the rise of social feminism and social research
  • G. Stanley Hall and the child study movement
  • Scientific child rearing, organized motherhood, and parent education
  • Social welfare reformers and reform-minded scientists
  • The Children's Bureau under Julia Lathrop : government at its best
  • From juvenile delinquency research to child guidance
  • Better crops, better pigs, better children : the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
  • The children's decade
  • Child development research : preventive politics
  • Out of step with his times : Arnold Gesell and the Yale Clinic
  • The child guidance movement : another approach to preventive politics
  • Child guidance becomes child psychiatry
  • The Children's Bureau under Grace Abbott : uphill all the way
  • Epilogue: What happened to the early movements? : the child development field after World War II.