{"product_id":"save-the-babies-9781580465175","title":"Save the Babies","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new release, with a new preface, of Richard A. Meckel's classic history of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American campaign to reduce infant mortality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-five years after its 1990 publication, Richard A. Meckel's \u003ci\u003eSave the Babies\u003c\/i\u003e remains widely acknowledged as the single most comprehensive and authoritative history of the multifaceted infant welfare campaign that attended and contributed to the dramatic late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century reduction of infant mortality in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Beginning with the mid-nineteenth-century transformation of infant mortality from a social fact into a social problem in need of amelioration and ending with the Great Depression, Meckel depicts and analyzes the evolution of a reform movement that had a single overriding goal but was made up of professional, political, philanthropic, and lay voluntary groups with often competing ideas and agendas. He shows how interaction and negotiation between these groups and their interests, as well as changing social and medical theory, shaped the successive ways that both the major causes of infant mortality and the best policies for its reduction were conceptualized and promoted. In an epilogue, the author provides an overview of the American discourse on infant mortality from the 1930s through the 1980s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For this new release of \u003ci\u003eSave the Babies\u003c\/i\u003e, the author has added a preface that surveys the related historical scholarship published since 1990 and details how the American discourse oninfant mortality has evolved since then.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard A. Meckel is professor of American Studies, Brown University, and author of \u003ci\u003eClassrooms and Clinics: Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Richard Alan Meckel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280220336379,"sku":"9781580465175","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781580465175_7ce4e697-46b0-4498-ab5a-312d266c240b.jpg?v=1772485061","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/save-the-babies-9781580465175","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}