Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Hilary Marland -- Notes on Contributors / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Hilary Marland -- Introduction: Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century / Hilary Marland and Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra -- Vigorous, Pure and Vulnerable: Child Health and Citizenship in the Netherlands Since the End of the Nineteenth Century / Ido de Haan -- Child Health, National Fitness, and Physical Education in Britain, 1900–1940 / John Welshman -- Educational Reform, Citizenship and the Origins of the School Medical Service / Bernard Harris -- Child Health, Commerce and Family Values: The Domestic Production of the Middle Class in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Britain / Lyubov G. Gurjeva -- Health and the Medicalisation of Advice to Parents in the Netherlands, 1890-1950 / Nelleke Bakker -- ‘Grown-Up Children’: Understandings of Health and Mental Deficiency in Edwardian England / Mark Jackson -- Mulock Houwer’s ‘Education for Responsibility’: A Chapter from the Dutch History of Institutional Upbringing / Ido Weijers -- The Healthy Citizen of Empire or Juvenile Delinquent?: Beating and Mental Health in the UK / Deborah Thom -- Children’s Emotional Well-being and Mental Health in Early Post-Second World War Britain: The Case of Unrestricted Hospital Visiting / Harry Hendrick -- The Problem of Sex Education in the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century / Hugo Röling -- ‘Tall, Spanking People’: The Idealisation of Adolescents in a Dutch Therapeutic Community / Gemma Blok -- In the Name of the Child Beyond / Roger Cooter -- Index / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Hilary Marland.

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The health and welfare of children became an area of concern and action in the early decades of the twentieth century. This concern would develop an ever-broader remit during the course of the century, moving from anxiety about high death rates, physical health and the ‘unfit’, to embrace all children and the mental health and the psychological well-being of individuals. This volume emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch Workshop held at the University of Warwick in July 1999, and is the first book to explore child health in the twentieth century in a comparative perspective, focussing on such issues as the link between child health and citizenship, the impact of ideas concerning degeneracy, socialisation, consumerism and children’s rights, and the role of the family, state and experts in mediating child health.