Health and the modern home
Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period. Drawing on recent scholarship, Jackson exposes the socio-political context in which the physical and emotional environment of the modern home and family b...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge
2008.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in the social history of medicine,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 'Home sweet home': historical perspectives on health and the home / Mark Jackson
- 'A bill of divorcement': theatrical and cinematic portrayals of mental and marital breakdown in a dysfunctional upper-middle-class family, 1921-31 / Michael J. Clark
- Desperate housewives and model amoebae: the invention of suburban neurosis in inter-war Britain / Rhodri Hayward
- Anne Sexton's poetics of the suburbs / Jo Gill
- Housewives, neuroses and the domestic environment in Britain, 1945-70 / Ali Haggett
- 'I thought you would want to come and see his home': child guidance and psychiatric social work in inter-war period Britain / John Stewart
- Rabbits and rebels: the medicalisation of maladjusted children in mid-twentieth-century Britain / Sarah Hayes
- 'Allergy con amore': psychosomatic medicine and the 'asthmogenic home' in the mid-twentieth century / Mark Jackson
- 'Skeletons in the medicine closet': women and 'rational consumption' in the inter-war American home / Nancy Tomes
- The home fires: heat, health and atmospheric pollution in Britain, 1900-45 / Stephen Mosley
- Coal, clean air and the regulation of the domestic hearth in post-war Britain / Catherine Mills
- Cockroaches, housing, and race: a history of asthma and urban ecology in America / Gregg Mitman
- Social science, housing and the debate over transmitted deprivation / John Welshman
- The home as environment: changing understandings from the history of childhood lead poisoning / John Burnham
- Into the mouths of babes: hyperactivity, food additives, and the reception of the Feingold diet / Matthew Smith.
