Pink and Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children
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In modern pediatric practice, gender matters. From the pink-and-blue striped receiving blankets used to swaddle newborns, to the development of sex-specific nutrition plans based on societal expectations of the stature of children, a gendered culture permeates pediatrics and childrens health throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book provides a look at how gender has served as one of the frameworks for pediatric care in the U.S. since the specialtys inception. Pink and Blue deploys genderoften in concert with class and raceas the central critical lens for understanding the function of pediatrics as a cultural and social project in modern U.S. history.
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Weight: 4g
Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
Publication Date: 14 May 2021
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781978809840
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ELENA C. CONIS a historian specializing in the history of public health medicine and the public understanding of science is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Journalism and Center for Science Technology Medicine and Society at the University of California Berkeley. She is the author of Vaccine Nation: Americas Changing Relationship with Immunization. SANDRA EDER is an assistant professor in the history department at the University of California Berkeley where she teaches U.S. gender history and the history of medicine. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in medicine and science clinical practices and patient records and the science of happiness. She is currently writing a book on the emergence of the sex/gender binary in mid-twentieth century American medicine. She has published in Gender & History Endeavour and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. AIMEE MEDEIROS is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Anthropology History and Social Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. She is the author of Heightened Expectations: The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America. She specializes in the history of pediatrics gender studies and science and technology studies.