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Science in the service of children, 1893-1935 [electronic resource] / Alice Boardman Smuts ; with the assistance of Robert W. Smuts ... [et al.].

By: Smuts, Alice Boardman.
Contributor(s): Smuts, Robert W | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006Description: xiv, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Child development -- Research -- United States -- History | Children -- Research -- United States -- History | Child welfare -- United States -- History | Child rearing -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.7/0973/09041 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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.

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