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Healing the World's Children

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In 1990, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child declared that children's "survival, protection, growth and development in good health and with proper nutrition is the essential foundation of ...
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  • 26 June 2008
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Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North American to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history.
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Price: $37.95
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Series: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
Publication Date: 26 June 2008
ISBN: 9780773574588
Format: eBook
BISACs: MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Nursing / General
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Cynthia Comacchio, professor of history, Wilfrid Laurier University, is the author of 'Nations Are Built of Babies': Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-40, The Infinite Bonds of Family: Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940, and The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920-50.