Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935This 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. |
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3 Scientific Child Rearing Organized Motherhood and Parent Education | 49 |
4 Social Welfare Reformers and ReformMinded Scientists | 62 |
Creating the Models 19101921 | 79 |
5 The Childrens Bureau under Julia Lathrop | 81 |
8 The Childrens Decade | 139 |
9 Child Development Research | 155 |
10 Out of Step with His Times | 173 |
11 The Child Guidance Movement | 191 |
12 Child Guidance Becomes Child Psychiatry | 207 |
13 The Childrens Bureau under Grace Abbott | 226 |
What Happened to the Early Movements? | 252 |
Notes | 271 |
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