Meggie Crnic, University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Place: 2U Conference Room, Room 2019, Claire Fagin Hall
Information: ehweiss@nursing.upenn.edu or 215-898-4502
Abstract. This paper examines the health and lived experiences of Philadelphia’s children in the late 19th and early 20th century, and the environmental therapies used by physicians, nurses, and social workers to remedy children’s health problems. I argue that physician and philanthropists utilized a range of environmental interventions, including sending them to seashore hospitals and country convalescent homes, as antidotes to the industrialized urban environment and as a means to Americanize immigrant children.
Meggie Crnic is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History & Sociology of Science at Penn.