HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Infant Mortality, School Hygiene, Cultural Hegemony
11 Feb 2014
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Jan. 10: nature and nurture: children"s bodies and minds. Tutorial: katherine arnup, waging war on infant mortality . Rising expectations for health = major change. Growing importance of experts and the state. How has social policy shaped childhood norms. Norm is childhood should be a period of innocence and protection from adulthood. Children are entitled to an education, healthcare, freedom to play. Contributing to family income to economically useless, emotionally priceless child. Its unnatural for a baby to be sick. You fit into the 90% of all children. Course themes: continuity and change, childhood as a social construction, social control vs agency, canonically useless but emotionally priceless - innocence, child saving. Who:babies and infant mortality. educating mothers. working class and middle class. What: advice from mother, mother blaming, infant mortality is a problem, article addresses the discussion around this problem and the solutions in that. Course themes: continuity and change, child saving, value of children, race/class.
