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.
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.