A voice for mothers : the Plunket Society and infant welfare, 1907-2000 / Linda Bryder
- Bib ID:
- 1000659
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bryder, Linda
- Description:
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- Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2003
- xvi, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1869402901 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"The Plunket Society, founded in 1907 and familiar to all New Zealanders, is our most successful and most famous voluntary organisation. Run by women for women, it played a vital role in the care of mothers and babies for most of the twentieth century, it became a national icon and its praises were sung internationally. This comprehensive history of Plunket covers its complex relations with government on the one hand and with its clients, the mothers, on the other. Linda Bryder particularly stresses changing views on infant health and the growth of paediatrics, the political pressures applied by government and by the medical profession, the influence of some gifted women who shaped the fortunes of the society, and its diminishing impact in recent years. As any mother who has anxiously awaited the visit of the Plunket nurse knows, this was a truly remarkable institution: this book vividly shows the history, the philosophy and the commitment which lay behind it."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. Founding the Society for Promoting the Health of Women and Children
- Ch. 2. A Professional Organisation
- Ch. 3. Plunket Becomes a Household Word: the Interwar Years
- Ch. 4. Complementary or Competing Services: Plunket and the Medical Profession in the Interwar Period
- Ch. 5. Helen Deem and Paediatrics, 1939-56
- Ch. 6. Plunket and the Government, 1939-60
- Ch. 7. Neil Begg and Social Paediatrics, 1960-78
- Ch. 8. Community Paediatrics, 1980s and 1990s
- Ch. 9. Plunket Nursing Services in the Late Twentieth Century
- Ch. 10. A Women's Society? Plunket's Changing Image from the 1970s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-341) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Royal New Zealand Plunket Society
- Copyright:
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