| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880–2000. Ed. by Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. xvi, 304 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-472-11268-6.)

Formative Years, edited by Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel, is a wonderful addition to the study of children in America. The essays originated as papers from a conference on the history of pediatrics and child health at the University of Michigan in 2000. They are uniformly interesting, informative, and well written, and they cover a wide range of topics.

Stern and Markel provide an excellent introduction to the collection, emphasizing the importance of understanding the medical, social, political, and cultural questions that shaped children's health. As they explain, pediatricians and child health reformers have spent more than a century addressing "medical ailments and social ills" in relation to children (p. 16). The collection is organized into three parts, with the first part exploring the development of pediatrics as a medical specialty from the 1880s to the 1920s.

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