Download or read book In the Name of the Child written by Roger Cooter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent revelations of child abuse have highlighted the need for understanding the historical background to current attitudes towards child health and welfare. In the Name of the Child explores a variety of professional, social, political and cultural constructions of the child in the decades around the First World War. It describes how medical and welfare initiatives in the name of the child were shaped and how changes in medical and welfare provisions were closely allied to political and ideological interests.