Science in the service of children, 1893-1935 / Alice Boardman Smuts ; with the assistance of Robert W. Smuts ... [and others].
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Science in the service of children, 1893-1935 / Alice Boardman Smuts ; with the assistance of Robert W. Smuts ... [and others].
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006]
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xiv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0300108974 alkaline paper
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