Healing the World's Children

Name: Healing the World's Children
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ISBN: 9780773577671

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century

Public health and preventive medicine Medical sociology History of medicine Paediatric medicine Nursing

Authors: Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, George Weisz

Collection: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society

Language: English

Published by: McGill-Queen's University Press

Published on: 15th July 2009

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 3 Mb

ISBN: 9780773577671

Essays Overview

Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children''s health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North American to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society.

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