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Author Smuts, Alice Boardman.

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

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

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Description xiv, 381 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Child development -- Research -- United States -- History.
Children -- Research -- United States -- History.
Child welfare -- United States -- History.
Child rearing -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Smuts, Robert W.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0300108974 (alk. paper)

 
    
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