HLTC23H3 Lecture : Lecture 1
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Lec 1- jan 10/2011: issues in child health and development. Neil postman: came up with the concept of shame, wrote a book about the middle ages where ppl would live together in one room. There weren t many secrets back then, but in todays society we try to protect sexual secrets from children. He believed children must be sheltered from adult secrets (sexual). Pearl s. buck: book about a chinese woman. Infancy is a biologically driven event with a genetically timed duration. It can be longer or shorter depending upon several factors. Greeks had no real world for child in the ancient world. They did invent schooling, but children s lives were precarious. Plato speaks of disciplining children through threats and blows, like a piece of warped wood (protagoras) Little concept of child as a category separate from adult in the middle ages. Children are defined as a class of people who must be sheltered from adult secrets.