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Religion, Law, and the Medical Neglect of Children in the United States, 1870-2000 - 'The Science of the Age' (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Religion, Law, and the Medical Neglect of Children in the United States, 1870-2000 - 'The Science of the Age' (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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Drawing upon a diverse range of archival evidence, medical
treatises, religious texts, public discourses, and legal documents,
this book examines the rich historical context in which
controversies surrounding the medical neglect of children erupted
onto the American scene. It argues that several nineteenth-century
developments collided to produce the first criminal prosecutions of
parents who rejected medical attendance as a tenet of their
religious faith. A view of children as distinct biological beings
with particularized needs for physical care had engendered both the
new medical practice field of pediatrics and a vigorous child
welfare movement that forced legislatures and courts to reconsider
public and private responsibility for ensuring children's physical
well-being. At the same time, a number of healing religions had
emerged to challenge the growing authority of medical doctors and
the appropriate role of the state in the realm of child welfare.
The rapid proliferation of the new healing churches, and the mixed
outcomes of parents' criminal trials, reflected ongoing uneasiness
about the increasing presence of science in American life.
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