Save the Babies

American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-58046-517-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 340 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

Reihe: Rochester Studies in Medical History

A new release, with a new preface, of Richard A. Meckel's classic history of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American campaign to reduce infant mortality.

Twenty-five years after its 1990 publication, Richard A. Meckel's Save the Babies remains widely acknowledged as the single most comprehensive and authoritative history of the multifaceted infant welfare campaign that attended and contributed to the dramatic late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century reduction of infant mortality in the United States.

Beginning with the mid-nineteenth-century transformation of infant mortality from a social fact into a social problem in need of amelioration and ending with the Great Depression, Meckel depicts and analyzes the evolution of a reform movement that had a single overriding goal but was made up of professional, political, philanthropic, and lay voluntary groups with often competing ideas and agendas. He shows how interaction and negotiation between these groups and their interests, as well as changing social and medical theory, shaped the successive ways that both the major causes of infant mortality and the best policies for its reduction were conceptualized and promoted. In an epilogue, the author provides an overview of the American discourse on infant mortality from the 1930s through the 1980s.

For this new release of Save the Babies, the author has added a preface that surveys the related historical scholarship published since 1990 and details how the American discourse oninfant mortality has evolved since then.

Richard A. Meckel is professor of American Studies, Brown University, and author of Classrooms and Clinics: Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meckel, Richard Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Cities as Infant Abattoirs: Anglo-American Sanitary Reform and the Discovery of Urban Infant Mortality
2. Improper Aliment: American Pediatrics and Infant Feeding
3. Pure Milk for Babes: Improving the Urban Milk Supply
4. A Question of Motherhood
5. Better Mothers, Better Babies, Better Homes
6. Before the Baby Comes: Neonatal Mortality and the Promotion of Prenatal Care
7. The Steps Not Taken: The Rediscovery of Poverty and the Rejection of Maternity Insurance
8. Defeat in Victory, Victory in Defeat: The Sheppard-Towner Act
Epilogue: Progress along a Narrow and Bumpy Path: Infant and Maternal Welfare after Shappard-Towner

Appendix A: Abbreviations
Appendix B: Infant and Neonatal Mortality Rates, by Race, United States, 1915-1985
Appendix C: Maternal Mortality Rates, by Race, United States, 1915-1985

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard A. Meckel is professor of American Studies, Brown University, and author ofClassrooms and Clinics: Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930.