Introduction: Coming of age together : gender and pediatrics / Aimee Medeiros -- A tale of two charts : the history of gendering sex-specific growth assessment in children's health / Aimee Medeiros -- "A habit that worries me very much" : raising good boys and girls in the postwar era / Jessica Martucci -- Gender and doctor-parent communication about Down Syndrome in the mid-twentieth century / Hughes Evans -- Making children into boys and girls : gender role in 1950s pediatric endocrinology / Sandra Eder -- Depathologizing trans childhood : the role of history in the clinic / Jules Gill-Peterson -- Race and gender in the NICU : wimpy white boys and strong black girls / Christine H. Morton, Krista Sigurdson, and Jochen Profit -- Masculinity and the case for a childhood vaccine / Elena Conis -- Weight, height, and the gendering of nutritional assessment / A.R. Ruis -- Competitive youth sports, pediatricians, and gender in the 1950s / Kathleen Bachynski -- Gender and the "new" puberty / Heather Prescott -- Gender and HPV vaccination : responsible boyhood or responsible girls and women? / Laura Mamo and Ashley PeĢrez.
Summary:
"In modern pediatric practice, gender matters. From the pink-and-blue-striped receiving blankets used to swaddle newborns, to the development of sex-specific nutrition plans based on societal expectations of the stature of children, a gendered culture permeates pediatrics and children's health throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book provides a look at how gender has served as one of the frameworks for pediatric care in the U.S. since the specialty's inception. Pink and Blue deploys gender-often in concert with class and race-as the central critical lens for understanding the function of pediatrics as a cultural and social project in modern U.S. history. This volume seeks to understand the dialectical relationship between gender and the medical care of children by combining a historical perspective on gender and pediatrics with analyses of current debates and controversies in pediatric practice such as pediatric transgender medicine, HPV, neonatal intensive care, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.