{"id":14818,"date":"2013-10-12T02:22:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T02:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=14818"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:11:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:11:21","slug":"cfp-is-war-good-for-babies-infant-and-child-welfare-during-the-first-world-war-event-092014-gottingen-dl-25-10-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=14818","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Is war \u2018good for babies\u2019? Infant and child welfare during the First World War (Event: 09\/2014, G\u00f6ttingen); DL: 25.10.2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Panel for a session at the Deutsche Historikertag<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ort: G\u00f6ttingen<br \/>\nZeit: 23.-26.09.2014<br \/>\n<strong>Deadline<\/strong>: 25.10.2013<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children\u2019,<\/em> or at least so said Deborah Dwork (1987) in her book on the infant and child welfare movement in England between 1898 and 1918. <\/p>\n<p>The heavy burdens of infant mortality and non-fatal childhood disease were recognised for the first time by social reformers in industrialising countries during the generation before 1914, and programmes of public health intervention were launched in many countries. Dwork\u2019s argument, in relation to England, was that enthusiasm for these programmes was more easily aroused and maintained in belligerent than in peaceful times. Arguments of \u2018national efficiency\u2019 \u2013 that child mortality and debility wasted the national stock of future workers and soldiers \u2013 acquired new force in countries grappling with \u2018total war\u2019 and its unprecedented demands for manpower. <a href=\"http:\/\/hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de\/termine\/id=23176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more and Source &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panel for a session at the Deutsche Historikertag Ort: G\u00f6ttingen Zeit: 23.-26.09.2014 Deadline: 25.10.2013 \u2018War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children\u2019, or at least so said Deborah Dwork (1987) in her book on the infant and child welfare movement in England between 1898 and 1918. The heavy burdens of infant mortality and non-fatal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-for-papers","category-1-weltkrieg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60291,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions\/60291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}