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What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught
children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In
Small Matters, Mona Gleason explores how medical professionals, lay
practitioners, and parents understood young patients and how
children responded. During the first half of the twentieth century,
particularly in the interwar decades, a number of changes took
shape within the field of child healthcare - the rise of pediatrics
as a medical profession, efforts to ameliorate maternal and infant
mortality rates, and the shift of focus from controlling contagious
diseases to the prevention of illness. Gleason makes use of oral
histories throughout this period of health and welfare reform to
shed new light on children's attitudes toward their medical
treatment, their largely unexplored experiences of hospitalization
and disability, and the importance of teachers and health
curriculum to the development of "healthy habits." By focusing on
children's medical treatment beyond the doctor's office, and by
paying particular attention to the experience of marginalized
children, Gleason makes a major contribution to the history of
Canadian childhood and healthcare. The first work of its kind,
Small Matters explores how children faced death, endured illness,
and learned to be healthy in the context of their families and
communities.
This new edition explores the myriad ways that education, broadly
defined, molds each of us in profound and enduring ways. Laid
against the supporting scaffolding of modern critical theory, the
chapters offer cutting edge perspectives of going to school in
British Columbia. How has education been tailored by race, class,
gender? How do representations of schools and schooling change over
time and whose interests are served? What echoes of current
tensions can we hear in the past? The book offers a glimpse of the
deep contradictions inherent in an experience that we all share.
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