Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective

Contents

Acknowledgements / xi Introduction / 1 The Spotlight on Children Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag POLITICS Vegetables on Parade / 23 American Medicine and the Child Health Movement in the Jazz Age Naomi Rogers No More Surprising Than a Broken Pitcher? / 73 Maternal and Child Health in the Early Years of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau Anne-Emanuelle Birn Entre la «Revanche» et la «Veillée» des berceaux / 101 Les médecins québécois francophones, la mortalité infantile, et la question nationale, 1910–1940 Denyse Baillargeon NUTRITION Infant Ideologies / 131 Doctors, Mothers, and the Feeding of Children in Australia, 1880–1910 Lisa Featherstone Perpetually Malnourished? / 161 Diet, Health, and America’s Young in the Twentieth Century Judith Sealander Contents vii The Early Development of Nutrition Policy in Canada / 191 Aleck Ostry RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIMENSIONS Caring for the Foreign-Born / 209 The Health of Immigrant Children in the United States, 1890–1925 Howard Markel La médicalisation de la mère et de son enfant / 227 L’exemple du Vietnam sous domination française, 1860–1939 Laurence Monnais Complicating Childhood / 267 Gender, Ethnicity, and “Disadvantage” within the New Zealand Children’s Health Camps Movement Margaret Tennant Race, Class, and Health / 287 School Medical Inspection and “Healthy” Children in British Columbia, 1890–1930 Mona Gleason Ordering the Bath / 305 Children, Health, and Hygiene in Northern Canadian Communities, 1900–1970 Myra Rutherdale EXPERTS Physician Denial and Child Sexual Abuse in America, 1870–2000 / 327 Hughes Evans “Living Symptoms” / 355 Adolescent Health Care in English Canada, 1920–1970 Cynthia Comacchio The Iconography of Child Public Health / 391 Between Medicine and Reform Janet Golden viii Contents INSTITUTIONS La contribution de l’Hôpital Saint-Paul et de l’Alexandra Hospital à la lutte contre les maladies contagieuses infantiles à Montréal, 1905–1934 / 411 Marie-Josée Fleury and Guy Grenier The Architecture of Children’s Hospitals in Toronto and Montreal, 1875–2010 / 439 Annmarie Adams and David Theodore Frontier Health Services for Children / 479 Alberta’s Provincial Travelling Clinic, 1924–1942 Sharon L. Richardson Selected Bibliography / 507 List of Contributors / 533 Index / 537 Contents ix This page intentionally left blank ...