Every Child a Lion : the Origins of Maternal and Infant Health Policy in the U.S. and France / Alisa Klaus.

One of Aesop's fables tells of the fox who taunted the lion about having so few children. "Yes," the lion replies, "but every child is a lion." This dispute is particularly appropriate to Alisa Klaus's comparative account of the early history of maternal and child welfa...

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Main Author: Klaus, Alisa (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Preface --  |t Introduction: Infant Mortality and Social Reform --  |t 1. Pronatalism, Eugenics, and Infant Mortality --  |t 2. Puériculteurs and Pediatricians: The Medical Supervision of Infant Health --  |t 3. French and American Women and Infant Health --  |t 4. American Women and the "Better Baby" Movement --  |t 5. French Public Policy and Motherhood, 1890-1914 --  |t 6. "Baby's Health-Civic Wealth": The Work of the U.S. Children's Bureau --  |t 7. "Bread, Bullets, and Babies": Saving the Next Generation in France and the United States --  |t Conclusion: Comparative Issues in Maternal and Infant Health Policy --  |t Index. 
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