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Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Recent historical work has done much to focus attention on changing conceptions of children's rights during the 19th and 20th centuries. These essays address a variety of themes including the abuse of children, and the role of the welfare state.
Advanced Skin Analysis
"With a complete update of the anatomy and physiology of the skin, Advanced Skin Analysis shares the relevant discoveries about the skin over the past decade and presents them in an easy to understand, informative manner that links structure and function to various skin conditions." - Back cover.
The Slow Evolution of Foster Care in Australia
This book draws on archival, oral history and public policy sources to tell a history of foster care in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present day. It is, primarily, a social history which places the voices of people directly touched by foster care at the centre of the story, but also within the wider social and political debates which have shaped foster care across more than a century. The book confronts foster care’s difficult past—death and abuse of foster children, family separation, and a general public apathy towards these issues—but it also acknowledges the resilience of people who have survived a childhood in foster care, and the challenges faced by those who have worked hard to provide good foster homes and to make child welfare systems better. These are themes which the book examines from an Australian perspective, but which often resonate with foster care globally.
Josephine Butler, Octavia Hill, Florence Nightingale
"The three women who had the greatest effect on social policy in Britain in the nineteenth century were Josephine Butler, Octavia Hill and Florence Nightingale. In an era when most women were confined to the kitchen and the salon, these three moved confidently into positions of world leadership. Josephine Butler raised opposition to the state regulation of prostitution and confronted the root issues of poverty and of civil rights for women. Octavia Hill - artist, teacher, and great conservationist- enabled thousands of families to meet the dislocations of the industrial revolution and created a new profession, that of the social worker. Florence Nightingale not only shattered precedent by es...
