Ebook: A Voice for Mothers: the Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907-2000

Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Epigraph; Foreword; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 : Founding the Society for Promoting the Health of Women and Children; CHAPTER 2 : A Professional Organisation; CHAPTER 3 : Plunket Becomes a Household Word: the Interwar Years; CHAPTER 4 : Complementary or Competing Services: Plunket and the Medical Profession in the Interwar Period; CHAPTER 5 : Helen Deem and Paediatrics, 1939-56; CHAPTER 6 : Plunket and the Government, 1939-60; CHAPTER 7 : Neil Begg and Social Paediatrics, 1960-78; CHAPTER 8 : Community Paediatrics, 1980s and 1990s.;The Plunket Society, founded in 1907, has been heralded as New Zealand's most successful and 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, becoming a national and international icon. A Voice for Mothers, this comprehensive history of Plunket, covers three broad themes: the relationship between the voluntary sector and the State in the provision of welfare, the development of paediatrics, and the relationship between health providers and their clients, the mothers. Bryder stresses, in par.