Little is known about environmental causes of childhood cancer. This is probably due to the relative rarity of cancer in children. In the United States, cancer incidence in adults is over 20 times greater than cancer incidence in children. The situation is compounded by the fact that two groups of cancers, leukemias and brain and spinal tumors, account for half of all childhood cancers. The rar...

In this article, I briefly survey the ethnographic research literature on childhood in the 20th century, beginning with the social and intellectual contexts for discussions of childhood at the turn of the 20th century. The observations of Bronislaw Malinowski and Margaret Mead in the 1920s were followed by later ethnographers, also describing childhood, some of whom criticized developmental the...

HowNew Is the “New” Social Study of Childhood? The Myth of a Paradigm Shift John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sigmund Freud, John Dewey, Erik Erikson, Margaret Mead, and countless lesser-known philosophers, social scientists, and political theorists have not only discussed children at length but also centered their view of humanity and society on the possibilities of childhood. One of modernit...

Evidence based policy drawn from research in the life and social sciences, overwhelmingly supports investment in early childhood interventions. These policies have mainly been drawn from targeted interventions. In addition, the rigorous development of longitudinal studies has influenced the life course approach to childhood studies as well as contributing to policy debate and formation. This st...

We present the dossier “Studies of Childhood: movements, limits and frontiers”, a theme discussed in III Brazilian Congress Childhood Studies (CEI). The was organized by members Department (DEDI) Graduate Program Education (ProPEd) State University Rio de Janeiro. articles that compose review debates took place during event fields education, international relations, ethno-racial issues. In this...