JANET GOLDEN is Associate Professor history at Rutgers. She is the author of A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle and a forthcoming book on the history of fetal alcohol syndrome.RICHARD A. MECKEL is Associate Professor of American Civilization and History at Brown University. He is the author of Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1939 (Johns Hopkins).HEATHER MONRO PRESCOTT Heather Munro Prescott is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. She is the author of A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine.

• ContentsSeries Forewordby Miriam Forman-BrunellviiAcknowledgmentsxiIntroductionxiiiPart IEssays11Levels and Trends of Death and Disease in Childhood, 1620 to the PresentRichard A.Meckel32Stories of Childhood Health and DiseaseHeather Munro Prescott253A Sound Mind for the Child###8217;s Body: The Mental Health of Children and YouthKathleen Jones434Children###8217;s Health: Caregivers and Sites of CareJanet Golden675Teaching Children about HealthElizabeth Toon856The Federal Government and Child HealthKriste Lindenmeyer107Part IIDocuments1277Recounting Health and Illness129vi CONTENTS8Advice on Child Health1439Images of Child Health and Providers15710Institutions for Children17311Mental Hygiene18312Child Health and the State195Part IIIBibliography20513Demographic and Epidemiologic Surveys20714Framing Child Death, Disease, and Health21115Health Care and Health Care Providers21516Child Health, Philanthropy, and the State221Index227Contributors241

JANET GOLDEN is Associate Professor history at Rutgers. She is the author of A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle and a forthcoming book on the history of fetal alcohol syndrome.RICHARD A. MECKEL is Associate Professor of American Civilization and History at Brown University. He is the author of Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1939 (Johns Hopkins).HEATHER MONRO PRESCOTT Heather Munro Prescott is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. She is the author of A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine.

• ContentsSeries Forewordby Miriam Forman-BrunellviiAcknowledgmentsxiIntroductionxiiiPart IEssays11Levels and Trends of Death and Disease in Childhood, 1620 to the PresentRichard A.Meckel32Stories of Childhood Health and DiseaseHeather Munro Prescott253A Sound Mind for the Child###8217;s Body: The Mental Health of Children and YouthKathleen Jones434Children###8217;s Health: Caregivers and Sites of CareJanet Golden675Teaching Children about HealthElizabeth Toon856The Federal Government and Child HealthKriste Lindenmeyer107Part IIDocuments1277Recounting Health and Illness129vi CONTENTS8Advice on Child Health1439Images of Child Health and Providers15710Institutions for Children17311Mental Hygiene18312Child Health and the State195Part IIIBibliography20513Demographic and Epidemiologic Surveys20714Framing Child Death, Disease, and Health21115Health Care and Health Care Providers21516Child Health, Philanthropy, and the State221Index227Contributors241

JANET GOLDEN is Associate Professor history at Rutgers. She is the author of A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle and a forthcoming book on the history of fetal alcohol syndrome.RICHARD A. MECKEL is Associate Professor of American Civilization and History at Brown University. He is the author of Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1939 (Johns Hopkins).HEATHER MONRO PRESCOTT Heather Munro Prescott is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. She is the author of A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine.

• ContentsSeries Forewordby Miriam Forman-BrunellviiAcknowledgmentsxiIntroductionxiiiPart IEssays11Levels and Trends of Death and Disease in Childhood, 1620 to the PresentRichard A.Meckel32Stories of Childhood Health and DiseaseHeather Munro Prescott253A Sound Mind for the Child###8217;s Body: The Mental Health of Children and YouthKathleen Jones434Children###8217;s Health: Caregivers and Sites of CareJanet Golden675Teaching Children about HealthElizabeth Toon856The Federal Government and Child HealthKriste Lindenmeyer107Part IIDocuments1277Recounting Health and Illness129vi CONTENTS8Advice on Child Health1439Images of Child Health and Providers15710Institutions for Children17311Mental Hygiene18312Child Health and the State195Part IIIBibliography20513Demographic and Epidemiologic Surveys20714Framing Child Death, Disease, and Health21115Health Care and Health Care Providers21516Child Health, Philanthropy, and the State221Index227Contributors241