- Title
- The value of an infant: the rise of paediatrics in Australia, 1880-1910
- Creator
- Featherstone, Lisa
- Relation
- Health and History Vol. 10, Issue 1, p. 110 - 133
- Relation
- http://www.anzshm.org.au/publications.html
- Publisher
- Australian Society for the History of Medicine
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Between 1880 and 1910 paediatrics in Australia developed not merely as a response to Enlightenment philosophical understandings of the child as precious and special, but as part of a wider demand for reproduction and population. A brief sketch of the international context will situate the specific Australian conditions, which include education, professionalisation and the emerging concept of infant mortality. A level of general specialisation within medicine was necessary for the development of paediatrics, in addition to a general and new interest in child health, which was a response to the social, political and economic needs of the emerging nation.
- Subject
- paediatrics; Australia; child health
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927767
- Identifier
- uon:10240
- Identifier
- ISSN:1442-1771
- Language
- eng
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