The Rising Generation’: Laying Claims to the Health of Adolescents in English Canada, 1920-70
- The beginning of doctors subcategorizing adolences
- Medicalization of children
- Child welfare
- Sexually transmitted diseases were one on the greatest public health problems of this time
- Domestic science was the best form of schooling for girls, and not for boys
- Gender, class and race
- The growth for teenager health care grew rapidly after the 1920’s
- They must focus on the puberty stage of one’s life because it can be one of the most important stages during those years
Race, Class, and Health: School Medical Inspection and “Healthy” Children in British Columbia, 1890 to 1930
- The health care system based all its teaching off of the white middle-class professional
- How class and race related to the education of children
- Public Health Act of BC – 1893
- There were many diseases that were spreading around during this time including: cholera, smallpox, bubonic plague and typhoid fever
- Differing communities had differing diseases that they were fighting against
- This became the idea about having healthy children, which started with the basics of hygiene, including brushing teeth, washing hands & showering daily
- School medical inspections
- Focus was mainly on non-white people and the lower class individuals
- Healthy families and communities are socially constructed
- Gender was a main concept of health
- Medical experts didn’t treat the children they diagnosed, parents had to go looking for someone else that would treat their children
- It has always been about healthy vs unhealthy