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The child health service: Governing families of pre-school children in Western Australia
Ann-Claire Larsen
Abstract
Child health governance of preschool children during the twentieth century
gradually changed from a central focus on physical health to an emphasis on
mental health. This change of focus entails normative procedures and
confessional techniques that involve families in the processes of their
subjection. The human sciences are implicated in this shift that has affected
child health nurses as well as their clients.
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