Nations are Built of Babies
：Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940
Publication subTitle ：Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940
Author： Comacchio Cynthia R.
Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication year： 1993
E-ISBN: 9780773563889
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773509917
Subject： R174 Infant health and hygiene
Keyword： 美洲史
Language： ENG
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Description
"Nations Are Built of Babies" documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and aided by the increasingly important position of experts in Canadian society, the medical profession tackled the "national tragedy" of infant and maternal mortality by advocating "scientific motherhood." Canadian mothers were believed to be handicapped by an ignorance that could be remedied only through expert tutoring and supervision of child-rearing duties.