Classrooms and Clinics : : Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930 / / Richard A. Meckel.
Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 16 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Going to School, Getting Sick: Mass Education and the Construction of School Diseases
- Chapter 2. Incubators of Epidemics: Contagious Disease and the Origins of Medical Inspection
- Chapter 3. Defective Children, Defective Students: Medicalizing Academic Failure
- Chapter 4. Building Up the Malnourished, the Weakly, and the Vulnerable: Penny Lunches and Open- Air Schools
- Chapter 5. From Coercion to Clinics: The Contested Quest to Ensure Treatment
- Chapter 6. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Expansion and Reorientation in the Postwar Era
- Epilogue: Contraction, Renovation, and Revival
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author