Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger
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Category : Child health services
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Infant Survival
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger
Publisher:
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Category : Child health services
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Child health services
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Child Survival
Author: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781556080289
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
of older children, adults, and the family unit as a whole. These moral evaluations are, in turn, influenced by such external contingencies as popula tion demography, social and economic factors, subsistence strategies, house hold composition, and by cultural ideas concerning the nature of infancy and childhood, definitions of personhood, and beliefs about the soul and its immortality. MOTHER LOVE AND CHILD DEATH Of all the many factors that endanger the lives of young children, by far the most difficult to examine with any degree of dispassionate objectivity is the quality of parenting. Historians and social scientists, no less than the public at large, are influenced by old cultural myths about childhood inno cence and mother love as well as their opposites. The terrible power and significance attributed to maternal behavior (in particular) is a commonsense perception based on the observation that the human infant (specialized as it is for prematurity and prolonged dependency) simply cannot survive for very long without considerable maternal love and care. The infant's life depends, to a very great extent, on the good will of others, but most especially, of course, that of the mother. Consequently, it has been the fate of mothers throughout history to appear in strange and distorted forms. They may appear as larger than life or as invisible; as all-powerful and destructive; or as helpless and angelic. Myths of the maternal instinct compete, historically, witli -myths of a universal infanticidal impulse.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781556080289
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
of older children, adults, and the family unit as a whole. These moral evaluations are, in turn, influenced by such external contingencies as popula tion demography, social and economic factors, subsistence strategies, house hold composition, and by cultural ideas concerning the nature of infancy and childhood, definitions of personhood, and beliefs about the soul and its immortality. MOTHER LOVE AND CHILD DEATH Of all the many factors that endanger the lives of young children, by far the most difficult to examine with any degree of dispassionate objectivity is the quality of parenting. Historians and social scientists, no less than the public at large, are influenced by old cultural myths about childhood inno cence and mother love as well as their opposites. The terrible power and significance attributed to maternal behavior (in particular) is a commonsense perception based on the observation that the human infant (specialized as it is for prematurity and prolonged dependency) simply cannot survive for very long without considerable maternal love and care. The infant's life depends, to a very great extent, on the good will of others, but most especially, of course, that of the mother. Consequently, it has been the fate of mothers throughout history to appear in strange and distorted forms. They may appear as larger than life or as invisible; as all-powerful and destructive; or as helpless and angelic. Myths of the maternal instinct compete, historically, witli -myths of a universal infanticidal impulse.
Babylost
Author: Monica J. Casper
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978825943
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Babylost tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 26 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. It centers women's loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death often left unexamined.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978825943
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Babylost tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 26 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. It centers women's loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death often left unexamined.
Child Survival
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Category : Child health services
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Child health services
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Infant Mortality: A Continuing Social Problem
Author: Eilidh Garrett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351155628
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In 1906, Sir George Newman's 'Infant Mortality: A Social Problem', one of the most important health studies of the twentieth century, was published. To commemorate this anniversary, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading academics to evaluate Newman's critical contribution, to review current understandings of the history of infant and early childhood mortality, especially in Britain, and to discuss modern approaches to infant health as a continuing social problem. The volume argues that, even after 100 years of health programmes, scientific advances and medical interventions, early childhood mortality is still a significant social problem and it also proposes new ways of defining and tracking the problem of persistent mortality differentials.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351155628
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In 1906, Sir George Newman's 'Infant Mortality: A Social Problem', one of the most important health studies of the twentieth century, was published. To commemorate this anniversary, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading academics to evaluate Newman's critical contribution, to review current understandings of the history of infant and early childhood mortality, especially in Britain, and to discuss modern approaches to infant health as a continuing social problem. The volume argues that, even after 100 years of health programmes, scientific advances and medical interventions, early childhood mortality is still a significant social problem and it also proposes new ways of defining and tracking the problem of persistent mortality differentials.
Infant Mortality
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs and Health
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Category : Infants
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : Infants
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Proceedings of the International Collaborative Effort on Perinatal and Infant Mortality
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Category : Fetal death
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Fetal death
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Role of Federal Food Assistance Programs in Strategies to Reduce Infant Mortality
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger. Domestic Task Force
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Category : Federal aid to infant health services
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category : Federal aid to infant health services
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Infant Mortality
Author: Anna Elizabeth Rude
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Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
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Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
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Infant Mortality Within Minority and Rural Communities
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Category : Federal aid to maternal health services
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Federal aid to maternal health services
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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