Cynthia Comacchio: 2 books
The Dominion of Youth
Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations relative to historic conditions. Although...
Healing the World's Children
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North American to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history.