Science in the service of children, 1893-1935

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Science in the service of children, 1893-1935

Alice Boardman Smuts ; with the assistance of Robert W. Smuts ... [et al.]

Yale University Press, c2006

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • 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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