Babies made us modern : how infants brought America into the twentieth century /
Golden, Janet Lynne, 1951-
Babies made us modern : how infants brought America into the twentieth century / Janet Golden Rutgers University - Camden. - xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Did babies make us modern? -- Infant lives and deaths : incubators, demographics, photographs -- Valuing babies : economics, social welfare, progressives -- Helping citizen baby : the u.s. children's bureau, good advice, better babies -- Bringing up babies I : giving, spending, saving, praying -- Bringing up babies II : health & illness, food & drink -- Helping baby citizens : traditional healers, patent medicines, local cultures -- The inner lives of babies : infant psychology -- Babies' changing times : depression, war, peace -- Baby boom babies -- Kissing and dismissing babies : American exceptionalism.
9781108415002 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781108400077 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2017054703
HQ769 / .G65 2018
649/.1
WS 11.AA1
Babies made us modern : how infants brought America into the twentieth century / Janet Golden Rutgers University - Camden. - xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Did babies make us modern? -- Infant lives and deaths : incubators, demographics, photographs -- Valuing babies : economics, social welfare, progressives -- Helping citizen baby : the u.s. children's bureau, good advice, better babies -- Bringing up babies I : giving, spending, saving, praying -- Bringing up babies II : health & illness, food & drink -- Helping baby citizens : traditional healers, patent medicines, local cultures -- The inner lives of babies : infant psychology -- Babies' changing times : depression, war, peace -- Baby boom babies -- Kissing and dismissing babies : American exceptionalism.
9781108415002 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781108400077 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2017054703
HQ769 / .G65 2018
649/.1
WS 11.AA1