Download or read book Healing the World's Children written by Cynthia Comacchio and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North American to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history.