Science in the service of children, 1893-1935

Smuts, Alice Boardman.

Science in the service of children, 1893-1935 [electronic resource] / Alice Boardman Smuts ; with the assistance of Robert W. Smuts ... [et al.]. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006. - xiv, 381 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.





DNLM


Child development--Research--History.--United States
Children--Research--History.--United States
Child welfare--History.--United States
Child rearing--History.--United States


Electronic books.

HQ787.85 / .S68 2006eb

362.7/0973/09041

© Strathmore University Library Madaraka Estate Ole, Sangale Road P. O. Box 59857 00200 City Square Nairobi Kenya
Tel.: (+254) (0)703 034000/(0)703 034200/(0)703 034300 Fax.: (+254) (0)20-607498