Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers to utilize urban schools to deliver health care services to socioeconomically disadvantaged and medically underserved children in the primary grades to improve children's health and thereby improve their academic performance.
Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers to utilize urban schools to deliver health care services to socioeconomically disadvantaged and medically underserved children in the primary grades to improve children's health and thereby improve their academic performance.
RICHARD A. MECKEL is professor of American studies at Brown University. He is the author of Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850–1929 and coeditor of Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health.
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Going to School, Getting Sick: Mass Education and the Construction of School Diseases 2. Incubators of Epidemics: Contagious Disease and the Origins of Medical Inspection 3. Defective Children, Defective Students: Medicalizing Academic Failure 4. Building Up the Malnourished, the Weakly, and the Vulnerable: Penny Lunches and Open-Air Schools 5. From Coercion to Clinics: The Contested Quest to Ensure Treatment 6. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Expansion and Reorientation in the Postwar Era Epilogue: Contraction, Renovation, and Revival Notes Index
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Going to School, Getting Sick: Mass Education and the Construction of School Diseases 2. Incubators of Epidemics: Contagious Disease and the Origins of Medical Inspection 3. Defective Children, Defective Students: Medicalizing Academic Failure 4. Building Up the Malnourished, the Weakly, and the Vulnerable: Penny Lunches and Open-Air Schools 5. From Coercion to Clinics: The Contested Quest to Ensure Treatment 6. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Expansion and Reorientation in the Postwar Era Epilogue: Contraction, Renovation, and Revival Notes Index
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