Janet Golden on Babies Made Us Modern

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🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Historian and author Janet Golden talks about her book, Babies Made Us Modern, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Golden chronicles the transformation of parenting in first half of the 20th century. It's a fascinating story of how our knowledge of infant health and behavior grew dramatically but remains imperfect. At the same time, government, business, and private organizations responded to that imperfect knowledge.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.8	Today is May 17, 2018, and my guest is historian and author Janet Golden.
0:39.6	She is professor of history at Rutgers University where she specializes in the history of medicine,
0:45.1	history of childhood, women's history, and American social history.
0:48.5	Her latest book, which is the topic of today's conversation, is Babies Made Us Modern.
0:54.8	How infants brought Americans into the 20th century.
0:58.6	Janet, welcome to Econ Talk.
1:00.6	Thank you.
1:01.6	This book's a really fascinating portrait of a piece of American social history, which
1:07.9	of course many of us are aware of.
1:10.3	In general outline, we know that the way we treat babies and the way they treat us has
1:15.5	changed over the last 100 years, but your book really brings home how incredibly dramatic
1:21.7	that change has been in a relatively short period of time.
1:26.1	And in creating that portrait, talk about what your goals were and how you went about
1:31.5	finding the information that you share on the book with your methodology.
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