[Cultures of child health in Britain and the Netherlands in the twentieth century] [by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Hilary Marland] / / [by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Hilary Marland].

• Superior document: Wellcome series in the history of medicine
• VerfasserIn: Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke,; Marland, Hilary,
• TeilnehmendeR: Marland, Hilary,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : [Brill],, [2003]
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Wellcome series in the history of medicine.; Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 71.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 pages) :; illustrations.

The health and welfare of children became an area of concern and action in the early decades of the twentieth century. This concern would develop an ever-broader remit during the course of the century, moving from anxiety about high death rates, physical health and the ‘unfit’, to embrace all childr...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Hilary Marland
• Notes on Contributors / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Hilary Marland
• Introduction: Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century / Hilary Marland and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
• Vigorous, Pure and Vulnerable: Child Health and Citizenship in the Netherlands Since the End of the Nineteenth Century / Ido de Haan
• Child Health, National Fitness, and Physical Education in Britain, 1900–1940 / John Welshman
• Educational Reform, Citizenship and the Origins of the School Medical Service / Bernard Harris
• Child Health, Commerce and Family Values: The Domestic Production of the Middle Class in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Britain / Lyubov G. Gurjeva
• Health and the Medicalisation of Advice to Parents in the Netherlands, 1890-1950 / Nelleke Bakker
• ‘Grown-Up Children’: Understandings of Health and Mental Deficiency in Edwardian England / Mark Jackson
• Mulock Houwer’s ‘Education for Responsibility’: A Chapter from the Dutch History of Institutional Upbringing / Ido Weijers
• The Healthy Citizen of Empire or Juvenile Delinquent?: Beating and Mental Health in the UK / Deborah Thom
• Children’s Emotional Well-being and Mental Health in Early Post-Second World War Britain: The Case of Unrestricted Hospital Visiting / Harry Hendrick
• The Problem of Sex Education in the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century / Hugo Röling
• ‘Tall, Spanking People’: The Idealisation of Adolescents in a Dutch Therapeutic Community / Gemma Blok
• In the Name of the Child Beyond / Roger Cooter
• Index / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Hilary Marland.