Women and Children First (Routledge Revivals): International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945

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Women and Children First (Routledge Revivals): International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945

개인저자

Fildes, Valerie | Marks, Lara | Marland, Hilary

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1 online resource (570 pages)

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Routledge Revivals

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9781135050160

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First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. It looks at the problem in five different continents and shows the varying approaches used by the governments, institutions and individuals in those countries. Contributors display how policy and practice have been shaped by the structure of maternity services, nationalism, the conflict of colonization and cultural factors. In doing so, they illustrate how welfare policy and funding were moulded throughout the world in the times considered Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Some international features of maternal mortality, 1880-1950 -- Maternal mortality as a major problem -- The causes of maternal mortality: sepsis and abortion -- Regional and international comparisons -- England and Wales -- The United States -- The fall in maternal mortality, 1937-50 -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 2. Maternity care and the threat of puerperal fever in Sydney, 1870-1939 -- The threat of puerperal fever -- Knowledge of aetiology -- Regulation of midwives -- Legislation -- The medical profession and the defence of private medicine -- Defects in the maternity care system -- The influence of other factors on mortality -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- 3. Mothers, babies and hospitals: 'The London' and the provision of maternity care in East London, 1870-1939 -- The availability of maternity care and the constraints attached to hospital provision -- Standards of hospital care and inpatient treatment -- Services provided -- The London's social welfare schemes -- Fees charged and the response of patients to The London's services -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 4. The medicalization of motherhood: doctors and infant welfare in the Netherlands, 1901-1930 -- Trends shaping infant welfare services -- The organization of infant welfare work -- The propaganda message and the development of maternity services -- The message received -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 5. 'The infant soldier': early child welfare efforts in Ontario -- Early child welfare efforts in Canada -- The Great War and child welfare -- The creation of child welfare services. 12. The costs of modern motherhood to low income families in interwar Britain -- Modern methods of childrearing: the cost to the family -- Poverty: the national and the local problem -- Local variations in 'scales of eligibility' for free maternity and infant welfare provision -- Services and scales of eligibility in Tottenham, Oxford, Oxfordshire, and Merthyr Tydfil -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Significance and results of the child welfare movement -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 6. 'Why does Congress wish women and children to die?': the rise and fall of public maternal and infant health care in the United States, 1921-1929 -- Notes -- 7. Ephemeral lives: the unremitting infant mortality of colonial Burma, 1891-1941 -- Infant nutrition -- Infant disease -- The British response -- Notes -- 8. Women and the state: maternal and child welfare in colonial Malaya, 1900-1940 -- The social context of infant mortality in Malaya -- Midwifery and the state -- The state enters the home -- Educating mothers of the future: domestic education in schools -- Conclusion: women and the state -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 9. 'Getting close to the hearts of mothers': medical missionaries among African women and children in Johannesburg between the wars -- Introduction -- Reef Africans and healing -- Mission medicine for mothers and babies: Anglicans and 'Princess Alice' -- The American Board: Alexandra and the Bridgman Memorial Hospital -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 10. 'Dangerous motherhood': maternity care and the gendered construction of Afrikaner identity, 1904-1939 -- Introduction -- The Afrikaans rural poor and maternity care, 1880-1930 -- Reconstructing motherhood: Afrikaner women and the management of childbirth, 1928-1939 -- From armmoeders to volksmoeders? Implementing the ACVVs maternity care programmes -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 11. 'That welfare warfare': sectarianism in infant welfare in Australia, 1918-1939 -- The formation of Australian infant welfare schemes -- The 'gospel' according to Truby King -- Truby King and the sharpening of sectarian conflict -- The battle over humanized milk and protein -- Truby King's contribution to Australian infant welfare work -- Acknowledgement -- Notes

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Infant health services -- History -- 19th century. Infant health services -- History -- 20th century. Maternal and infant welfare -- Government policy. Maternal health services -- History -- 19th century. Maternal health services -- History -- 20th century

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