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Title: The value of an infant: the rise of paediatrics in Australia, 1880-1910
Author/Creator: Featherstone, Lisa
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: Between 1880 and 1910 paediatrics in Australia developed not merely as a response to Enlightenment philosophical understandings of the child as precious and special, but as part of a wider demand for reproduction and population. A brief sketch of the international context will situate the specific Australian conditions, which include education, professionalisation and the emerging concept of infant mortality. A level of general specialisation within medicine was necessary for the development of paediatrics, in addition to a general and new interest in child health, which was a response to the social, political and economic needs of the emerging nation.
Relation: Health and History Vol. 10, Issue 1, p. 110 - 133
Relation: http://www.anzshm.org.au/publications.html
Date: 2008
Publisher: Australian Society for the History of Medicine
Keyword(s): paediatrics; Australia; child health
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927767
Identifier: ISSN:1442-1771

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