Children's health issues in historical perspective / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag, editors.

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2005], ©2005.

xi, 554 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Introduction : The spotlight on children / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag -- Vegetables on parade : American medicine and the child health movement in the Jazz age / Naomi Rogers -- No more surprising than a broken pitcher? Maternal and child health in the early years of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau / Anne-Emmanuelle Birn -- Entre la "revanche" et la "veillée" des berceaux : les médecins québécois francophones, la mortalité infantile, et la question nationale, 1910-1940 / Denyse Baillargeon -- Infant ideologies : doctors, mothers, and the feeding of children in Australia , 1880-1910 / Lisa Featherstone -- Perpetually malnourished? Diet, health, and America's young in the twentieth century / Judith Sealander -- The early development of nutrition policy in Canada / Aleck Ostry -- Caring for the foreign-born : the health of immigrant children in the United States, 1890-1925 / Howard Markel -- La médicalisation de la mère et de son enfant : l'exemple du Vietnam sous domination française, 1860-1939 / Laurence Monnais -- Complicating childhood : gender, ethnicity, and "disadvantage" within the New Zealand children's health camps movement / Margaret Tennant -- Race, class, and health : school medical inspection and "healthy" children in British Columbia, 1890-1930 / Mona Gleason -- Ordering the bath : children, health, and hygiene in northern Canadian communities, 1900-1970 / Myra Rutherdale -- Physician denial and child sexual abuse in America, 1870-2000 / Hughes Evans -- "Living symptoms" : adolescent health care in English Canada, 1920-1970 / Cynthia Comacchio -- The iconography of child public health : between medicine and reform / Janet Golden -- La contribution de l'Hôpital Saint-Paul et de l'Alexandra Hospital à la lutte contre les maladies contagieuses infantiles à Montréal, 1905-1934 / Marie-Josée Fleury and Guy Grenier -- The architecture of children's hospitals in Toronto and Montreal, 1875-2010 / Annmarie Adams and David Theodore -- Frontier health services for children : Alberta's provincial travelling clinic, 1924-1942 / Sharon L. Richardson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chiefly English, with two chapters in French.