The sick child, humanitarian narratives and the getting of hospitals: an historical research brief.
The nineteenth and early twentieth century discourse on the need for a separate children's pavilion at Dunedin Hospital, and for a fever hospital, constructed "the sick child' as an image of suffering. This research brief offers a preliminary consideration of the way in which this construction relates to Thomas Laqueur's "humanitarian narrative" (1989). It examines five texts to see how "the sick child' was used in a persuasive discourse to get hospitals.
Wood
P J
PJ
Otago Poltechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand.
D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000266:history*; D006808:Humanism / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand