Benjamin Spock
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Education, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Psychology, Psychiatry, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Children, Doctors, Physicians, Nurses
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present
Article abstract: Through his advocacy, publications, and activities related to child care and developmental psychology, Spock sought to advise parents on matters and issues previously ignored by mainstream pediatric medicine. As a social activist, he called for socialized medicine, an end to U.S. military police action abroad, and nuclear disarmament.
Early Life
Benjamin McLane Spock was the oldest of six children of Benjamin Ives Spock, a conservative Connecticut railroad lawyer, and Mildred Louise Stoughton, a native of Vermont. As a child, he...
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