The Science of the Child in Liberal Italy by Luisa Tasca - 9783031657801

The Science of the Child in Liberal ItalyAuthor(s): Luisa Tasca\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031657801, 978-3031657801\nSynopsis\nThis book investigates a forgotten chapter of history: the role of Italian scienceswithin the child study movement. Between the 1880s and the First World War, children became the focus ofunprecedented professional and scientific interest in Europe and the United States. The bodies and psychesof children, their care and growth, their development, 'normal' and 'abnormal', intelligence, andmoral sense, constituted a new field of research. Italy, which had just become a nation, also took part in thisinternational movement: on the study of the child, a substantial part of the Italian ruling class launched itself,with a mixture of enthusiasm, hope and concern, on the frontier between different areas of [url] a broad spectrum of sources, this book offers the first overv.