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A voice for mothers : the Plunket Society and infant welfare, 1907-2000

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  • Description

    "The Plunket Society, founded in 1907 and familiar to all New Zealanders, is our most successful and most famous voluntary organisation. Run by women for women, it played a vital role in the care of mothers and babies for most of the twentieth century, it became a national icon and its praises were sung internationally. This comprehensive history of Plunket covers its complex relations with government on the one hand and with its clients, the mothers, on the other.

    Linda Bryder particularly stresses changing views on infant health and the growth of paediatrics, the political pressures applied by government and by the medical profession, the influence of some gifted women who shaped the fortunes of the society, and its diminishing impact in recent years. As any mother who has anxiously awaited the visit of the Plunket nurse knows, this was a truly remarkable institution: this book vividly shows the history, the philosophy and the commitment which lay behind it."--Jacket.

  • Place
    Auckland, New Zealand
  • Other Id

    HV700.N49 BRY (Library of Congress Call Number)

    89323 (Cat ID)

    89163 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

    Publications

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    A voice for mothers : the Plunket Society and infant welfare, 1907-2000
  • Primary Maker

    Royal New Zealand Plunket Society (Contributor)

    Linda Bryder (Author)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Auckland University Press
  • Place
    Auckland, New Zealand
  • Date
    2003
  • Physical Description

    xvi, 352 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    1869402901
    9781869402907
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Content
    1. Founding the society for promoting the health of women and children
    2. A professional organisation
    3. Plunket becomes a household word: the interwar years
    4. Complementary or competing services: Plunket and the medical profession in the interwar period
    5. Helen Deem and paediatrics, 1939-1956
    6. Plunket and government, 1939-1960
    7. Neil Begg and social paediatrics, 1960-1978
    8. Community paediatrics, 1980s and 1990s
    9. Plunket nursing services in the late twentieth century
    10. A women's society? Plunket's changing image from the 1970s.
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society--History; Maternal and infant welfare--New Zealand--Auckland; Infant health services--New Zealand--History; Voluntary health agencies--History; Child health services--History; Maternal health services--History]

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-341) and index.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    16 Dec 2023
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