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Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935

2006 Alice Boardman Smuts ;ISBN: 9780300108972 ;ISBN: 0300108974 ;EISBN: 0300128479 ;EISBN: 9780300128475 ;OCLC: 923589075 ;LCCallNum: HQ787.85.S68 2005

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  • Title:
    Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935
  • Author: Smuts, Alice
  • Subjects: Child development ; Child rearing ; Child welfare ; Children ; History ; Science ; Social history ; Social research ; U.S.A ; United States
  • Description: This book is the first comprehensive history of the development of child study during the early part of the twentieth century. Most nineteenth-century scientists deemed children unsuitable subjects for study, and parents were hostile to the idea. But by 1935, the study of the child was a thriving scientific and professional field. Here, Alice Boardman Smuts shows how interrelated movements-social and scientific-combined to transform the study of the child. Drawing on nationwide archives and extensive interviews with child study pioneers, Smuts recounts the role of social reformers, philanthropists, and progressive scientists who established new institutions with new ways of studying children. Part history of science and part social history, this book describes a fascinating era when the normal child was studied for the first time, a child guidance movement emerged, and the newly created federal Children's Bureau conducted pathbreaking sociological studies of children.
  • Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press
  • Creation Date: 2006
  • Format: 400
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780300108972
    ISBN: 0300108974
    EISBN: 0300128479
    EISBN: 9780300128475
    OCLC: 923589075
    LCCallNum: HQ787.85.S68 2005
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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