Monográfico Volumen 23 (2003)
THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN IN MODERN HISTORY. EPISODES FOR EMBEDDING SCIENCE, CULTURE AND POLITICS   Edición a cargo de Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña

Child health, a paradigmatic issue in modern history Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña   La salud infantil, asunto ejemplar en la historiografía contemporánea Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña   The Evora foundlings between the 16th an the 19th Century: The portuguese public welfare system under analysis Laurinda Abreu   Ciencia e ideología en los estudios sobre crecimiento humano en Francia y en España (1900-1950) Rosa Ballester Añon y Enrique Perdiguero Gil

«Practising hygiene and fighting the natives’ disease». Public health and child health in German East Africa and Tanganyka territory, 1900-1960 Walter Bruchhausen   International organizations and the problem of child health James A. Gillespie   History of the health notebook in France: A stake for mothers, doctors and state Catherine Rollet

 

 

Laurinda Abreu . The Évora foundlings between the 16th an the 19th Century: The portuguese public welfare system under analysis. Dynamis, 2003, 23. 

Summary

1.—The phenomenon of the abandoned children. 2.—Conditions and results of children abandonment. 3.—The number of abandoned children. 4.—The Évora foundlings. 5.—Conclusion.

 

 

Rosa Ballester Añon y Enrique Perdiguero Gil. Ciencia e ideología en los estudios sobre crecimiento humano en Francia y en España (1900-1950). Dynamis, 2003, 23. 

Sumario 

1.—Introducción. 1.1.—El estudio histórico de la talla en las poblaciones humanas. 1.2.—La tendencia secular de la estatura en el mundo occidental e hipótesis sobre sus determinantes. 2.—Fuentes de estudio, justificación y objetivos. 3.—El crecimiento en las fuentes médicas francesas y españolas. Análisis comparado. 3.1.—Dos trayectorias diferentes. 3.2.—Los estudios sobre crecimiento en la pediatría francesa y española de la primera mitad del siglo XX. 3.2.1.—La preocupación por la eugenesia y las luchas sanitarias en el periodo de entreguerras. 3.2.2.—Divergencias políticas y usos diferentes de los estudios franceses y españoles tras la II Guerra Mundial. 4.—Conclusión.

 

 

Walter Bruchhausen. «Practising hygiene and fighting the natives’ disease». Public health and child health in German East Africa and Tanganyka territory, 1900-1960. Dynamis, 2003, 23. 

Summary

1.—The infant as emerging medical issue: Population policy and public health. Population growth or decline? 1.1.—Infant mortality by harmful baby feeding? 1.2.—«Practising hygiene and fighting the natives' diseases». 2.—The development of child health services. 2.1.—Early child health care under German rule: Government and missions. 2.2.—The training of Africans in child care under British rule. 2.2.1.—The first attempt after World War I. 2.2.2.—The second attempt after World War I. 2.3.— Child care, local people and European judgements.

 

 

James A. Gillespie. International organizations and the problem of child health. Dynamis, 2003, 23.

Summary 

1.—Models of intervention in the interwar years. 2.—International relief and post war reconstruction. 3.—International health and the politics of institutional design. 4.—UNICEF and supply driven policy. 5.—Conclusion.

 

Catherine Rollet. History of the health notebook in France: A stake for mothers, doctors and state. Dynamis, 2003, 23. 

        

Summary

1.—Introduction. 2.—An idea of Fonssagrives to trace a family medical genealogy. 3.—Medical booklets, notebooks and files: expansion of initiatives. 4.—What did the mothers make with these booklets? 5.—The involvement of public health.