The Boston Floating Hospital
The Boston Floating Hospital

Author: Lucie Prinz

Publisher: Floating Hospital for Children

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781934598153

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In 1894 the Boston Floating Hospital took its first trip around the harbor, providing medical care to the city?s poor and sick children. What began as an earnest attempt to help suffering children ultimately became one of Boston?s most beloved and storied institutions. Through research, ingenuity, and attention to the needs of ailing children and their families, the hospital grew into a scientific leader, pioneering the specialty of pediatric medicine.The history of the Floating is the story of the tireless efforts of the nurses, doctors, and average Bostonians who worked to make their city a more compassionate place, as well as an examination of the fledgling beginnings of pediatric health care in America.This beautifully designed volume is a valuable contribution to the history of medicine and the literature of Boston. It is sure to capture the hearts and imaginations of historians, health care professionals, and parents?just as the original boat did over a century ago.

Portrait of a Port
Portrait of a Port

Author: W. H. Bunting

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780674690769

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Portrait Of A Port is a classic portrayal of Boston's glorious maritime past opens a window onto the history of American port cities.

A Social History of Wet Nursing in America
A Social History of Wet Nursing in America

Author: Janet Golden

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780814250723

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From the colonial period through to the 20th century, this text examines the intersection of medical science, social theory and cultural practices as they shaped relations among wet nurses, physicians and families. It explores how Americans used wet nursing to solve infant feeding problems, shows why wet nursing became controversial as motherhood slowly became medicalized, and elaborates how the development of scientific infant feeding eliminated wet nursing by the beginning of the 20th century. Janet Golden's study contributes to our understanding of the cultural authority of medical science, the role of physicians in shaping child rearing practices, the social construction of motherhood, and the profound dilemmas of class and culture that played out in the private space of the nursery.