"Nations Are Built of Babies" documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and aided by the increasingly important position of experts in Canadian society, the medical profession tackled the "national tragedy" of infant and maternal mortality by advocating "scientific motherhood." Canadian mothers were believed to be handicapped by an ignorance that could be remedied only through expert tutoring and supervision of child-rearing duties.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-334) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 613/.0432/09713
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 9780773563889 0773509917
- LCCN
- RJ103.C2
- LCCN Item number
- C66 1993eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- DNLM
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xv, 340 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)jme00326240 (OCoLC)144143819 (CaOOCEL)400379
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Saving Ontario's mothers and children, 1900-1940
- Transcribing agency
- DNLM
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Figures and Tables 10
- Preface 14
- 1 Introduction 20
- 2 "Guarded Against Harmful Conditions": The Campaign's Setting 33
- 3 "The Infant Soldier": Early Child Welfare Efforts 60
- 4 "To Glorify, Dignify and Purify": Saving Mothers 81
- 5 "We Want Perfect Parents": Mothers, Medicine, and the State 109
- 6 "A Healthy Programme for Life": The Management of Childhood 133
- 7 "By Every Means in Our Power": Child and Maternal Welfare Services 161
- 8 "Ninety-Nine Percent Child Study Conscious": The Public Response 198
- 9 "Despite the Best Efforts": The Campaign's Effects 230
- 10 Conclusion 253
- Appendix 260
- Notes 264
- Index 352
- A 352
- B 352
- C 352
- D 352
- E 353
- F 353
- G 353
- H 353
- I 354
- K 354
- M 354
- N 355
- O 355
- P 355
- R 356
- S 356
- T 356
- V 357
- W 357
- Y 357