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Science in the service of children, 1893-1935

Smuts, Alice Boardman.

Science in the service of children, 1893-1935 [electronic resource] / Alice Boardman Smuts ; with the assistance of Robert W. Smuts ... [et al.]. - Yale University Press, c2006. - 1 online resource (xiv, 381 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Three movements, one goal -- Save the child and save the nation : the rise of social feminism and social research -- G. Stanley Hall and the child study movement -- Scientific child rearing, organized motherhood, and parent education -- Social welfare reformers and reform-minded scientists -- The Children's Bureau under Julia Lathrop : government at its best -- From juvenile delinquency research to child guidance -- Better crops, better pigs, better children : the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station -- The children's decade -- Child development research : preventive politics -- Out of step with his times : Arnold Gesell and the Yale Clinic -- The child guidance movement : another approach to preventive politics -- Child guidance becomes child psychiatry -- The Children's Bureau under Grace Abbott : uphill all the way -- Epilogue: What happened to the early movements? : the child development field after World War II.

9780300128475 (electronic bk.) 0300128479 (electronic bk.)


Child development--Research--History.--United States
Children--Research--History.--United States
Child welfare--History.--United States
Child rearing--History.--United States
Child Development--United States.
Child Welfare--History.--United States
Child Rearing--History.--United States
History, 19th Century--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Enfants--Développement--Recherche--Histoire.--États-Unis
Enfants--Recherche--Histoire.--États-Unis
Enfants--Protection, assistance, etc.--Histoire.--États-Unis
Éducation des enfants--Histoire.--États-Unis
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Social Security.

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Electronic books.

HQ787.85 / .S68 2006eb

362.7/0973/09041

36(73)

2006 F-172 WS 11 AA1 / S666s 2006
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