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.