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Cynthia R. Comacchio - Nations Are Built of Babies, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

Nations Are Built of Babies

Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940

Av Cynthia R. Comacchio

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"Nations Are Built of Babies" documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and aided by the increasingly important position of experts in Canadian society, the medical profession tackled the "national tragedy" of infant and maternal mortality by advocating "scientific motherhood." Canadian mothers were believed to be handicapped by an ignorance that could be remedied only through expert tutoring and supervision of child-rearing duties. Working within a Marxist-feminist framework, Cynthia Comacchio demonstrates that the campaign was part of a conscious plan to modernize Canadian families to meet the ideological imperatives of industrial capitalism. Doctors reasoned that if infants could be saved and their physical, mental, and moral health regulated, the benefits in socio-economic terms would more than offset any individual or state investment.
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"A fascinating story of government involvement in people's lives, internecine rivalries in the medical profession (especially between doctors and nurses), and the prominent role played in the ongoing debate by such prominent women as Helen MacMurchy and Charlotte Whitton." Gerald J. Stortz, Canadian Book Review Annual "A welcome addition to the field of Canadian medical history ... The book is a revealing analysis of a major public health campaign that lasted for decades because it took so long to get to the underlying causes of infant mortality. Most of all, Comacchio's work is another reminder of the wider social and economic determinants of health, an important conclusion that is increasingly guiding our health care system in the 1990s." Paul Bator, Ontario History "A compelling study of the limitations as well as the achievements of the child welfare campaign." Molly Ladd-Taylor, Canadian Historical Review

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