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2 - Infant Pain Denial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2025

Leticia Fernández-Fontecha
Leticia Fernández-Fontecha
Affiliation:
Washington and Lee University, Virginia
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Anchored in the theoretical perspectives explored in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 surveys the historical development of infant pain denial from 1890 until 1950 in three scientific communities: the child study movement, behavioural psychology and paediatrics. The analysis shows the extent to which figurations of children’s pain were products of a struggle for recognition between contending disciplines and delves into the reasons for the scepticism towards pain, which had important consequences in paediatrics.

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Childhood painChild Study Movementbehavioural psychologyexperimentationpaediatricsinfant pain denial
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Childhood, Pain and Emotion
A Modern British Medical History
 , pp. 57 - 78
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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