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Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950
This book is about infant mortality decline, the rise of the infant welfare movement, outcomes in terms of changing priorities in child health and what happened to mothers and babies. Infant welfare raised public awareness but did not contribute as powerfully to improved infant survival - and so longer life - as protagonists claimed. This work shows what it meant for reformers, babies and mothers when the call was 'population is power: the nation that has the babies has the future'.
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Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950
This book is about infant mortality decline, the rise of the infant welfare movement, outcomes in terms of changing priorities in child health and what happened to mothers and babies. Infant welfare raised public awareness but did not contribute as powerfully to improved infant survival - and so longer life - as protagonists claimed. This work shows what it meant for reformers, babies and mothers when the call was 'population is power: the nation that has the babies has the future'.
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Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950

Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950

by Philippa Mein Smith
Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950

Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950

by Philippa Mein Smith

Overview

This book is about infant mortality decline, the rise of the infant welfare movement, outcomes in terms of changing priorities in child health and what happened to mothers and babies. Infant welfare raised public awareness but did not contribute as powerfully to improved infant survival - and so longer life - as protagonists claimed. This work shows what it meant for reformers, babies and mothers when the call was 'population is power: the nation that has the babies has the future'.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349143061
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/1997
Edition description: 1st ed. 1997
Pages: 330
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - A White Health Transition - The Major Threat to Babies - 'Long Live King Baby' - Prophets, Lady Doctors and Prescriptions - Storm in a Feeding Bottle - Movement or Movements? - Mothers' Practices - The Newborn and Neonatal Paediatrics - The Pre-Schooler and Child Development - Conclusion - Index
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