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

by Richard A. Meckel

Book Overview

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 medically underserved children in the primary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813562392
• ISBN13: 9780813562391
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"