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- 作者: J. G. Ballard,China Mieville
- 出版社/メーカー: Fourth Estate Ltd
- 発売日: 2008/11/01
- メディア: ペーパーバック
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これと対比されるように、
と書かれている。
(…) Parents in the 1930s what now seems a remarkably detached view of their children, whose welfare if they could afford it was assigned to servants, whatever the hazards. My parents had been born in the first decade of the 20th century, long before antibiotics and public health concerns for vitamin-enriched foods, clean air and water. Childhood, for families of any income, was a gamble with disease and early death. All this devalued the entire experience of childhood, and emphasised the importance of being adult, an achievement in its own light. Children were an appendage to the parents, somewhere between the servants and an obedient Labrador, and were never seen as a significant measure of a family’s health or the center of life. (p.44)
フィリップ・アリエスによれば、西洋社会における子どもへの眼差しの転換は19世紀に起こったことになるが、バラードが回想しているように、20世紀の中頃に大きな転換があったようだ。彼はその転換の要因のひとつとして、「抗生物質（antibiotics）」という技術的要素を挙げているが、さて？
