HISTORY OF HEALTH PRATICES FOR MINORS CHILDREN IN FRANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND IN THE FIRST PART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. APPLICATIONS, OPPOSITIONS AND RESISTANCES

Abstract

The history of care and more generally of health practices for minors is exemplary of consideration afforded to
children in the last centuries. For a long time, the child
has been considered as an adult in miniature or as an imperfect and perfectible human being. Thus, unfortunately, he was considered fit for work or even, by nature, as
potentially dangerous. Often, the methods of education were the punishment. The child « difficult », considered
as a threat to living together, has been punished and imprisoned as an adult. The creation of specific structures
and the development of appropriate organizations are recent. The International Convention on Human Rights,
certainly perfectible, marks real progress, but, unfortunately, this convention is still partial implimented.