Healing the World's Children

Cynthia Comacchio, professor of history, Wilfrid Laurier University, is the author of 'Nations Are Built of Babies': Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-40, The Infinite Bonds of Family: Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940, and The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920-50.

Acknowledgments Introduction / Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz Part One historical perspectives on child health 1 North American Perspectives on the History of Child Health in the Twentieth Century / Neil Sutherland; 2 Recent Work on the History of Childhood in Europe / Catherine Rollet; 3 Latin American Infant and Child Health Historiography / Anne-Emanuelle Birn Part Two constructing health and disability 4 AIDs Orphans, Raped Babies and Suffering Children: The Moral Construction of Childhood in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Didier Fassin; 5 Selling Disability in Twentieth Century United States: Tools of the Trade / Laurie Block Part three hearing children's voices 6 "It's back": Children With Cancer Talking about Their Disease, Themselves and Their Options for Care and Treatment / Myra Bluebond-Langner and Megan Nordquest Schwallie; 7 Size Matters: Medical Experts, Educators, and the Provision of Health Services to Children in Early to Mid-Twentieth Century English Canada / Mona Gleason Part four measuring child health 8 More Than the Names Have Changed: Exploring the Historical Epidemiology of Intellectual Disability in the United States / Jeffrey P. Brosco; 9 Politics, Policy, and the Measuring of Child Health: Child Malnutrition in the Great Depression / Richard A. Meckel Part five representing children in health and sickness 10 When the Children are Sick, So Is Society: Dr Norman Bethune and the Montreal Circle of Artists / Loren Lerner; 11 From the Final Sleep to the First Steps: Postmortem Portraiture and Childhood and Amateur Photography / Vincent Lavoie Contributors; Index