Classrooms and Clinics: Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930

Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers to utilize urban schools to deliver health care services to socioeconomically disadvantaged and medical. 1. Going to School, Getting Sick: Mass Education and the Construction of School Diseases; 2. Incubators of Epidemics: Contagious Disease and the Origins of Medical Inspection; 3. Defective Children, Defective Students: Medicalizing Academic Failure; 4. Building Up the Malnourished, the Weakly, and the Vulnerable: Penny Lunches and Open-Air Schools; 5. From Coercion to Clinics The Contested Quest to Ensure Treatment; Figure Insert; 6. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Expansion and Reorientation in the Postwar Era. Epilogue: Contraction, Reorientation, and Revival Notes; Index.