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Subject(s)

• Pediatrics—Social aspects—United States—History [Browse]
• Sex role in children—United States—History [Browse]
• Sex differences (Psychology) in children—United States—History [Browse]
• Gender identity in children—United States—History [Browse]
• Pediatrics—United States—Psychological aspects—History [Browse]
• Children—Health and hygiene—United States—History [Browse]

Editor

• Conis, Elena [Browse]
• Eder, Sandra [Browse]
• Medeiros, Aimee Lynn, 1972- [Browse]

Series

Critical issues in health and medicine [More in this series]

Summary note

"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 children's 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 specialty's inception. Pink and Blue deploys gender-often in concert with class and race-as the central critical lens for understanding the function of pediatrics as a cultural and social project in modern U.S. history. This volume seeks to understand the dialectical relationship between gender and the medical care of children by combining a historical perspective on gender and pediatrics with analyses of current debates and controversies in pediatric practice such as pediatric transgender medicine, HPV, neonatal intensive care, and more"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Coming of age together : gender and pediatrics / Aimee Medeiros
• A tale of two charts : the history of gendering sex-specific growth assessment in children's health / Aimee Medeiros
• "A habit that worries me very much" : raising good boys and girls in the postwar era / Jessica Martucci
• Gender and doctor-parent communication about Down Syndrome in the mid-twentieth century / Hughes Evans
• Making children into boys and girls : gender role in 1950s pediatric endocrinology / Sandra Eder
• Depathologizing trans childhood : the role of history in the clinic / Jules Gill-Peterson
• Race and gender in the NICU : wimpy white boys and strong black girls / Christine H. Morton, Krista Sigurdson, and Jochen Profit
• Masculinity and the case for a childhood vaccine / Elena Conis
• Weight, height, and the gendering of nutritional assessment / A.R. Ruis
• Competitive youth sports, pediatricians, and gender in the 1950s / Kathleen Bachynski
• Gender and the "new" puberty / Heather Prescott
• Gender and HPV vaccination : responsible boyhood or responsible girls and women? / Laura Mamo and Ashley Pérez.

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ISBN

• 9781978809888 (hardcover)
• 1978809883 (hardcover)
• 9781978809840 (paperback)
• 1978809840 (paperback)

LCCN

2020035576

OCLC

1193127688

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