Chapter 3. Defective Children, Defective Students: Medicalizing Academic Failure

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Going to School, Getting Sick: Mass Education and the Construction of School Diseases 10
6. Chapter 2. Incubators of Epidemics: Contagious Disease and the Origins of Medical Inspection 38
7. Chapter 3. Defective Children, Defective Students: Medicalizing Academic Failure 67
8. Chapter 4. Building Up the Malnourished, the Weakly, and the Vulnerable: Penny Lunches and Open- Air Schools 100
9. Chapter 5. From Coercion to Clinics: The Contested Quest to Ensure Treatment 128
10. Chapter 6. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Expansion and Reorientation in the Postwar Era 157
11. Epilogue: Contraction, Renovation, and Revival 195
12. Notes 207
13. Index 251
14. About the Author 261