Kids and medicine: Bibliographic notes

Reiser, Medicine and the Reign of Technology (1981)
Seltzer, Bodies and Machines (1992) (Literature-based)
Swabe, Animals, Disease, and Human Society: Human-Animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Science (1998)

Steam-Man of the Prairies

in Bill Brown's essay in Cultures of United States Imperialism, he describes a scifi book from 1868 in which a disabled child constructs a steam-powered man to do all of the things he can't do: Ellis, Steam-Man of the Prairies.

Refinements of the body

Chapter: Children and modern medicine
Public health campaigns
Miracle children
Publicity
Vaccination controversy
Eugenics
Christian Scientists' children