Pink and Blue : : Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children /

Pink and Blue : : Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children / / ed. by Elena Conis, Aimee Medeiros, Sandra Eder.

In modern pediatric practice, gender matters. From the pink-and-blue striped receiving blankets used to swaddle newborns, to the development of sex-specific nutrition plans based on societal expectations of the stature of children, a gendered culture permeates pediatrics and children’s health throug...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Bachynski, Kathleen E.,
Conis, Elena,
Eder, Sandra,
Evans, Hughes,
Gill-Peterson, Jules,
Mamo, Laura,
Martucci, Jessica,
Medeiros, Aimee,
Morton, Christine H.,
Prescott, Heather Munro,
Profit, Jochen,
Pérez, Ashley E.,
Ruis, A. R.,
Sigurdson, Krista,
HerausgeberIn:
Conis, Elena,
Eder, Sandra,
Medeiros, Aimee,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description:1 online resource (214 p.) :; 6 b-w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Coming of Age Together: Gender and Pediatrics
  • Part 1 Clinical Practice
  • Chapter 1 A Tale of Two Charts: The History of Gendering Sex-Specific Growth Assessment in Pediatrics
  • Chapter 2 “A Habit That Worries Me Very Much”: Raising Good Boys and Girls in the Postwar Era
  • Chapter 3 Gender and Doctor–Parent Communication about Down Syndrome in the Mid-Twentieth Century
  • Chapter 4 Making Children into Boys and Girls: Gender Role in 1950s Pediatric Endocrinology
  • Chapter 5 Depathologizing Trans Childhood: The Role of History in the Clinic
  • Chapter 6 Race and Gender in the NICU: Wimpy White Boys and Strong Black Girls
  • Part 2 Body Politic
  • Chapter 7 Masculinity and the Case for a Childhood Vaccine
  • Chapter 8 Weight, Height, and the Gendering of Nutritional Assessment
  • Chapter 9 Competitive Youth Sports, Pediatricians, and Gender in the 1950s
  • Chapter 10 Gender and the “New” Puberty
  • Chapter 11 Gender and HPV Vaccination: Responsible Boyhood or Responsible Girls and Women?
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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