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Science in the service of children, 1893-1935

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Language
English
Pages
381

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Cover of: Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935
Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935
2008, Yale University Press
in English
Cover of: Science in the service of children, 1893-1935
Science in the service of children, 1893-1935
2005, Yale University Press
in English

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New Haven

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.7/0973/09041
Library of Congress
HQ787.85 .S68 2005, HQ787.85.S68 2005, HQ767.85 .S68 2006, HQ787.85 .S68 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
381

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3408079M
ISBN 10
0300108974
ISBN 13
9780300108972
LCCN
2005023925
OCLC/WorldCat
61309326
LibraryThing
1708459
Goodreads
1421505

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OL5831620W

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