Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935

science in the service of children, 1893-1935

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Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935

Editorial Reviews
Review
Barbara Beatty :

"Alice Boardman Smuts has written the first comprehensive history of early scientific research on children, which will be very useful to anyone interested in the history of children, science, and social policy. Smuts' work is highly original and she writes in a direct, accessible manner."-Barbara Beatty, Education Department Chair, Wellesley College, and author of Preschool Education in America



Julius B. Richmond :

"Everyone interested in improving the lives of children and their families should read this book.  It is a brilliant presentation of how the emerging science of child growth and development gave rise to the child caring professions and an important contribution to American history of the twentieth century."-Julius B. Richmond, M.D., Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School



Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive history of the development of child study during the early part of the twentieth century. Most nineteenth-century scientists deemed children unsuitable subjects for study, and parents were hostile to the idea. But by 1935, the study of the child was a thriving scientific and professional field. Here, Alice Boardman Smuts shows how interrelated movements—social and scientific—combined to transform the study of the child.
Drawing on nationwide archives and extensive interviews with child study pioneers, Smuts recounts the role of social reformers, philanthropists, and progressive scientists who established new institutions with new ways of studying children. Part history of science and part social history, this book describes a fascinating era when the normal child was studied for the first time, a child guidance movement emerged, and the newly created federal Children’s Bureau conducted pathbreaking sociological studies of children.

Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935,Alice Smuts,Yale University Press,0300108974,Child development,Child welfare,Children,Children's Studies,General,History,History - General History,Research,Science,Science/Mathematics,United States,History / General,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,Impact of science & technology on society

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