Smuts, Alice.

Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (398 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Three Movements, One Goal, -- Part 1: Preparing the Way, 1893-1910 -- 1. Save the Child and Save the Nation -- 2. G. Stanley Hall and the Child Study Movement -- 3. Scientific Child Rearing, Organized Motherhood, and Parent Education -- 4. Social Welfare Reformers and Reform-Minded Scientists -- Part 2: Creating the Models, 1910-1921 -- 5. The Children's Bureau under Julia Lathrop -- 6. From Juvenile Delinquency Research to Child Guidance -- 7. Better Crops, Better Pigs, Better Children -- Part 3: Breaking Through, 1922-1940 -- 8. The Children's Decade -- 9. Child Development Research -- 10. Out of Step with His Times -- 11. The Child Guidance Movement -- 12. Child Guidance Becomes Child Psychiatry -- 13. The Children's Bureau under Grace Abbott -- Epilogue: What Happened to the Early Movements? -- Notes -- Index.

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Child development -- Research -- United States -- History.


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HQ787.85.S68 2006

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