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This title in other formats:Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulationby Philip J Hilts
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-378) and index.
Review:“Ann Hulbert is one of the most astute observers of American cultural mores. She casts a discerning eye on our peculiar reverence for child-rearing experts. Over the last century American children have been unwitting research subjects, their parents the researchers, with the experts offstage writing the scripts on how to raise better if not perfect children. The story she tells is at once touching and troubling. Nobody does this better.” Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy Review:“Ann Hulbert is one of the most astute observers of American cultural mores. She casts a discerning eye on our peculiar reverence for child-rearing experts. Over the last century American children have been unwitting research subjects, their parents the researchers, with the experts offstage writing the scripts on how to raise better if not perfect children. The story she tells is at once touching and troubling. Nobody does this better.” Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy Review:“Raising America is a generation-by-generation history of advice, and the joy of this book is in how successfully Hulbert renders the taste and smell of the circus. Here are the same kinds of runaway and pediatric best-sellers as we have today . . . the same folksy Dr. Feelgoods. . .” Sandra Tsing Loh, The Atlantic Monthly Review:“Lucidly written . . . thought-provoking . . . Not merely an account of a “century of advice” but also a history of the ways in which our ideas about families, women, childhood and adult responsibility have and have not shifted over the course of a hundred years. Hulbert’s achievement is to examine our hopes and fears as they are played out in the lives of our children and to understand how we have come to determine the proper time to pick up a crying baby.” Francine Prose, front cover, L.A. Times Book Review Review:“Ann Hulbert’s unfailing generosity and kindness toward experts, parents, and children alike result in a book of incisive ideas as well as wonderful stories about raising children. Raising America immeasurably enhances our ability to understand the mixture of our own confusions and good intentions, both as parents and as veterans of our family pasts.” Christine Stansell, author of American Moderns Review:“Were I to recommend one book to a new parent, it wouldn’t be a how-to manual, but rather Ann Hulbert’s diverting and thoroughly illuminating study, Raising America . . . . It’s a fine-grained survey of all the major American child-rearing experts, but it’s also something more: a kind of secret history of the times, laying out the symbiosis between the growing culture of expertise and parental anxiety.” Steven Metcalf, The New York Observer Review:“Provocative and informative . . . a model of lay scholarship . . . Here is the story of how Drs. Hall and Holt begat Drs. Gesell and Watson, who begat Dr. Spock and even Dr. Seuss, and how they in turn spawned an entire mini-industry of parenting experts . . . With a flair for wordplay and a taste for irony, Hulbert documents the upbringings of the experts themselves, the fluctuations in their advice and the details of their downfalls.” Publishers Weekly About the AuthorPhilip J. Hilts has written about medicine for the Washington Post and the New York Times (since 1989). He is the author of Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up, Memory?s Ghost: The Nature of Memory and The Strange Tale of Mr. M., and Scientific Temperaments: Three Lives in Contemporary Science, a finalist for the National Book Award. He and his wife live in Brookline, Massachusetts. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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