... babies should sleep, debates on sleep as a locus of care imagine both a future of productive sleep and a present of risky sleep for babies. This split in care for infants suggests that welfare itself should be reconceptualized both in terms of the care of populations through government regulation...

... in a progressively better tomorrow, the future feels both uncertain and unknown. This is how Sareeta Amrute (this issue) reads the incredible investments and contestations over early infant care in the contemporary United States as parents struggle to pre- pare and inoculate their children for a world beyond...

... for denying treatment to the handicapped (in response to Infant Doe, as handicapped with Down syndrome). See 47 Federal Register 26,027 (16 June 1982), Notice to Health Care Providers (18 May 1982); Notice of Interim Final Rule, Office of the Secretary, Depart­ ment of Health and Human Services, 48 Federal...

... to the fetus/infant. The latter requirement has also been written into draft legisla- tion.9 Sujata-ben s narrative describes self-care, concern, caution, and atten- tion, which exemplify some of the affective labor and commodities produced by a surrogate while pregnant. These and the breast-feeding...

... indications of health inequalities is the disparity in infant mortality between African Americans and white Americans. In the early part of the twentieth century, the mortality rate of black infants was about twice that of white infants. Despite tremendous advances in pre- natal and neonatal care...

... care. John s perception, we can now see if we didn t before, is the speaker/child s in­ Blake s Dark Visions of Torment 701 terpretation, the word care asserting itself subliminally in somewhat the same way that fall does in the befall of Infant Joy. And it is precisely that care, from...

... was cared for effectively and efficiently in $2 The South Atlantic Quarterly an isolated, peaceful atmosphere and in a temperature evenly con­ trolled. Both Clemens and Bela watched results closely. It was seen that such isolated infants recovered more quickly than those tended in the usual way in the ward...

... is a func­ tion of the adequacy of care, and adequacy of care is a function of both the mother s capacity for caregiving and the infant s capacity to make use of caregiving. In optimal situations mother and infant find ways of co­ operating in this momentous endeavor. The infant s experience...

... in this context translates neatly as “affect-based.” Likierman writes, for instance, that in contrast to Freud’s undifferentiated notion of primary narcissism, in Klein “the infant is . . . equipped from birth to apprehend a qualitative essence in different kinds of life experiences” (55). About...

... of prenatal care. These proposals, however, were met with great resistance, even among the most forward-thinking Soviets. “My efforts to nationalize maternity and infant care set off a new wave of insane attacks against me,” she writes, and detrac- tors claimed that she was trying to “nationalize women...

... effort to prevent infant mortality, including birthregistration and the establishment of municipal milk depots; and by the provision of free meals and proper medical care for school children. The purpose of this War Paper, Dr. Abbott says, is to review briefly some of the English legisla­ tion that has...

... to do with the slaves. They soon discovered that they had suddenly thrust upon themselves a grave social problem. There were hundreds of slaves, many of them who hardly knew their right hand from their left, suddenly bereft of their masters. Somebody had to care for them. They had always lived under...

... professors and students in re­ search in the history of their state. Published annually at one dollar. Dr. Henry H. Hibbs of Birmingham, Alabama, has recent­ ly made a statistical study of The Present Position of Infant Mortality: Its Recent Decline in the United States. This has been reprinted from...

... fishes, insects and reptiles have no infancy; to their birth endowment no acquisition need be added by experience; they simply repeat by inherited reactions what their ances­ tors have done for generations; they require little or no pa­ rental care, they need no education, they are born fully edu­ cated...

... inaccuracies in diagnosis may partially account for the fact that more cases were not recorded. Though the planter usually took every precaution in caring for slave infants, the mortality rate was higher than that of white children. The entire study is well documented, fortified by numerous tables...

... and society but nevertheless wanted to prove the outlook right, was to take care, somehow, of the weaknesses and objections. He had to discount or disprove them, or else reconcile them with the optimistic beliefs in man s sociability and society s goodness in other words, to show that apparent evil is really...

...Jerome Dowd Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 Child Labor. By Jerome Dowd, A. M. Affectionate care of offspring has been a characteristic of the earliest people of the earth. But among savages affection is spasmodic. It does not extend to all of the offspring and does not last...

... any tolerable ideal, business, hope, marriage, ambition, amusement, philosophy, adventure can be built. They want him to learn to respect man and the individualism that informs humanity. All the infant Smith needs to make a man of him, aside from adequate physical care, is a knowledge of other men...

... that informs humanity. All the infant Smith needs to make a man of him, aside from adequate physical care, is a knowledge of other men in terms common to them all. It should be knowledge as largely at second hand, as much on the record, as far from contemporary and as critically viewed as possible...

... of a gardener at Beaconsfield where the editor has carefully noted his failure. Quotations from the classics are translated and located by chapter and verse, and, in one case, the editor provides a corrected version of the original Latin. Mr. Woods has also been excessively careful to footnote each instance...