Classrooms and Clinics – Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870–1930
Language: English
Published by Rutgers Univ Pr, 2013
Series: Book 30 of 65 - Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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- Title
- Classrooms and Clinics – Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870–1930
- Author
- Meckel, Richard A.
- Publisher
- Rutgers Univ Pr
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0813562406
- ISBN 13
- 9780813562407
- Item weight
- 0.67 kilograms
- Series
- Book 30 of 65: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers to utilize urban schools to deliver health care services to socioeconomically disadvantaged and medically underserved children in the primary grades. Their goal, Meckel shows, was to improve the children’s health and thereby improve their academic performance.
Meckel situates these efforts within a larger late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public discourse relating schools and schooling, especially in cities and towns, to child health. He describes and explains how that discourse and the school hygiene movement it inspired served as critical sites for the constructive negotiation of the nature and extent of the public school’s-and by extension the state’s-responsibility for protecting and promoting the physical and mental health of the children for whom it was providing a compulsory education.
Tracing the evolution of that negotiation through four overlapping stages, Meckel shows how, why, and by whom the health of schoolchildren was discursively constructed as a sociomedical problem and charts and explains the changes that construction underwent over time. He also connects the changes in problem construction to the design and implementation of various interventions and services and evaluates how that design and implementation were affected by the response of the civic, parental, professional, educational, public health, and social welfare groups that considered themselves stakeholders and took part in the discourse. And, most significantly, he examines the responses called forth by the question at the heart of the negotiations: what services are necessitated by the state’s and school’s taking responsibility for protecting and promoting the health and physical and mental development of schoolchildren. He concludes that the negotiations resulted both in the partial medicalization of American primary education and in the articulation and adoption of a school health policy that accepted the school’s responsibility for protecting and promoting the health of its students while largely limiting the services called for to the preventive and educational.
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About the Author
RICHARD A. MECKEL is professor of American studies at Brown University. He is the author of Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850–1929 and coeditor of Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health.
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