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

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

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 welfa...

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

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