Every Child a Lion : : The Origins of Maternal and Infant Health Policy in the U.S. and France / / Alisa Klaus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Klaus, Alisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

One of Aesop's fables tells of the fox who taunted the lion about having so few children. "Yes," the lion replies, "but every child is a lion." This dispute is particularly appropriate to Alisa Klaus's comparative account of the early history of maternal and child welfare programs in the United States and France over a thirty-year period.Her central concerns include the ways in which pronatalism in France and fears of "race suicide" in the United States shaped public and professional intervention in reproduction, and the influence of women's organizations on social policy in two different institutional and political settings.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Infant Mortality and Social Reform -- 1. Pronatalism, Eugenics, and Infant Mortality -- 2. Puériculteurs and Pediatricians: The Medical Supervision of Infant Health -- 3. French and American Women and Infant Health -- 4. American Women and the "Better Baby" Movement -- 5. French Public Policy and Motherhood, 1890-1914 -- 6. "Baby's Health-Civic Wealth": The Work of the U.S. Children's Bureau -- 7. "Bread, Bullets, and Babies": Saving the Next Generation in France and the United States -- Conclusion: Comparative Issues in Maternal and Infant Health Policy -- Index