In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political construction of the child, and descrives how medical and welfare initiatives of the time were closely allied to politcal and ideological interests.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 1992-03-05
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..