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• Author/Creator:Golden, Janet Lynne, 1951- author.
  
• Title:Babies made us modern : how infants brought America into the twentieth century / Janet Golden.
  
• ISBN:9781108415002
  1108415008
  9781108400077
  1108400078
  
• Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  
• Physical Description:xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  

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  • Call Number: HQ769 .G65 2018 (LC)
    
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• Summary:Placing babies' lives at the center of her narrative, historian Janet Golden analyzes the dramatic transformations in the lives of American babies during the twentieth century. She examines how babies shaped American society and culture and led their families into the modern world to become more accepting of scientific medicine, active consumers, open to new theories of human psychological development, and welcoming of government advice and programs. Golden also connects the reduction in infant mortality to the increasing privatization of American lives. She also examines the influence of cultural traditions and religious practices upon the diversity of infant lives, exploring the ways class, race, region, gender, and community shaped life in the nursery and household.
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Did babies make us modern? -- Infant lives and deaths : incubators, demographics, photographs -- Valuing babies : economics, social welfare, progressives -- Helping citizen baby : the u.s. children's bureau, good advice, better babies -- Bringing up babies I : giving, spending, saving, praying -- Bringing up babies II : health & illness, food & drink -- Helping baby citizens : traditional healers, patent medicines, local cultures -- The inner lives of babies : infant psychology -- Babies' changing times : depression, war, peace -- Baby boom babies -- Kissing and dismissing babies : American exceptionalism.
  
• Subjects:Child rearing--United States--History--20th century.
  Infants--United States--History--20th century.
  Maternal and infant welfare--United States--History--20th century.
  Parent and infant--United States--History--20th century.
  Child rearing--History.
  Parent and child.
  Maternal and infant welfare--history.
  United States.
  
• Subjects (Medical): History, 19th Century.
  History, 20th Century.