HISTORY OF HEALTH PRATICES IN FAVOR OF MINOR 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 é 4 UNE SÉRIE DU JOURNAL DE MÉDECINE LÉGALE / A SERIES OF THE JOURNAL OF FORENSIC MEDICINE 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.