Formative years : children's health in the United States, 1880-2000 / edited by Alexandra Minna Stern, Howard Markel.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2002], ©2002.

xvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Updated and edited papers from the David Murray Cowie Symposium on the History of Pediatrics and Child Health in America, held Sept. 2000 in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Abraham Jacobi and the origins of scientific pediatrics in America / Russell Viner -- For the welfare of children : the origins of the relationship between U.S. public health workers and pediatricians / Howard Markel -- Technology in the nursery : incubators, ventilators, and the rescue of premature infants / Jeffrey P. Baker -- Weight charts and well child care : when the pediatrician became the expert in child health / Jeffrey P. Brosco -- Better babies contests at the Indiana state fair : child health, scientific motherhood, and eugenics in the midwest, 1920-35 / Alexandra Minna Stern --"I was a teenage dwarf" : the social construction of "normal" adolescent growth and development in the United States / Heather Munro Prescott -- Going to school, getting sick : the social and medical construction of school diseases in the late nineteenth century / Richard Meckel -- Pathway to health : juvenile diabetes and the origins of managerial medicine / Chris Feudtner -- The discovery of child sexual abuse in America / Hughes Evans -- Framework as prison : interpreting fetal alcohol syndrome in the late twentieth century / Janet Golden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.