Annual Report
Annual Report

Author: Great Britain. Local Government Board

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 752

ISBN-13:

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Supplements to the Board's Annual report include the: Report of the medical officer

Nutrition in Britain
Nutrition in Britain

Author: David F. Smith

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780415112147

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For the first time a collection of essays are brought together to consider the way social processes have been involved in the implementation of nutritional science in 20th century Britain.

Nutrition in Britain
Nutrition in Britain

Author: David Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1136156755

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This volume brings together for the first time a collection of essays, based on original research, which focus on the history of nutrition science in Britain. Each chapter considers a different episode in the development and application of nutritional knowledge during the twentieth century. The topics covered include: the chewing cult of Horace Fletcher, dietetic education, the popularization of milk, the Dunn Nutritional Laboratory, and wartime involvement in policy making. The selection of essays in Nutrition in Britain provide valuable new insights into the social processes involved in the production and application of scientific knowledge of nutrition. This book will be fascinating reading to historians of science or medicine, as well as to medical sociologists, nutritionists, home economists, health educators, food activists and anyone with a professional or general interest in food and nutrition.

In the Name of the Child
In the Name of the Child

Author: Roger Cooter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1134933215

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Recent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around the First World War. It describes how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were shaped and how changes in medical and welfare provisions were closely allied to political and ideological interests.

Elementary Schooling and the Working Classes, 1860-1918
Elementary Schooling and the Working Classes, 1860-1918

Author: J. S. Hurt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-11-18

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1315442272

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This study, first published in 1979, analyses the attitude of various income and occupational groups to elementary schools both before and after the introduction of compulsory school attendance. It also discusses the efforts made by voluntary organisations to provide school meals, as well as examining the quality of the meals themselves, before the enactment of remedial legislation in the early twentieth century. This title will be of interest to students of history and education.

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency
From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency

Author: Anne Digby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-09

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1134831986

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From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights and the debate over the education of children with special needs have combined to make this one of the most controversial areas in social policy today. The nine original research essays collected here cover the social history of learning disability from the Middle Ages through the establishment of the National Health Service. They will not only contribute to a neglected field of social and medical history but also illuminate and inform current debates. The information presented here will have a profound impact on how professionals in mental health, psychiatric nursing, social work and disabled rights understand learning disability and society's responses to it over the course of history.