Introduction: Infant Mortality and Social Reform

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Infant Mortality and Social Reform 1
5. 1. Pronatalism, Eugenics, and Infant Mortality 10
6. 2. Puériculteurs and Pediatricians: The Medical Supervision of Infant Health 43
7. 3. French and American Women and Infant Health 90
8. 4. American Women and the "Better Baby" Movement 136
9. 5. French Public Policy and Motherhood, 1890-1914 172
10. 6. "Baby's Health-Civic Wealth": The Work of the U.S. Children's Bureau 208
11. 7. "Bread, Bullets, and Babies": Saving the Next Generation in France and the United States 244
12. Conclusion: Comparative Issues in Maternal and Infant Health Policy 282
13. Index 293