Right Living : An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene Hardback
Edited by Charles E. (Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard University) Rosenberg
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During the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth century, most Americans healed themselves at home, as their ancestors had done for centuries.
They relied upon books and pamphlets addressing health and diseases, diet, exercise, sex, mental health-everything one needed to know about how to avoid illness and what to do if illness or injury should strike. In Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene, Charles E.
Rosenberg and his co-authors analyze these early health-oriented books, pamphlets, and broadsides-their origins, content, role, and authorship-and contribute to our understanding of their role in everyday life. Right Living also offers insight into the world views and bedside practices of another time by examining the shaping and transmission of the English and continental tradition, the persistent interest in sexual relations and their consequences, and the changing uses of print as a commodity and as a product of specific, time-bound technologies. Contributors: Kathleen Brown, Mary E. Fissell, William H. Helfand, Thomas A. Horrocks, Ronald L. Numbers, Charles E. Rosenberg, Steven Shapin, Jean Silver-Isenstadt, Steven Stowe.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 4 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, color
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:01/08/2003
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- ISBN:9780801871894
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 4 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, color
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:01/08/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780801871894
