Protecting children in time : child abuse, child protection, and the consequences of modernity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferguson, Harry (Thomas Harold)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Protecting children in time, or failing to : child abuse, child protection and modernity
  • Taking it onto the streets : the discovery of child death and birth of child protection, 1870-1914
  • The smell of practice : child protection, the body and the experience of modernity
  • From day-to-day quietly and without fuss : child protection, simple modernity and the repression of knowledge of child death, 1914-70
  • Child physical abuse and the return of death since the 1970s : child protection, risk and reflexive modernization
  • Child sexual abuse and the reflexive project of the self : child protection, individualization and life politics
  • Into another world : child neglect, multi-problem families and the psychosocial dynamics of late-modern child protection
  • Liquid welfare : child protection and the consequences of modernity.