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Title:

Right living : an Anglo-American tradition of self-help medicine and hygiene / edited by Charles E. Rosenberg.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

x, 236 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Medicine, Popular--History--18th century.
Medicine, Popular--History--19th century.
Self-care, Health--United States--History--18th century.
Self-care, Health--United States--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Rosenberg, Charles E.
Library Company of Philadelphia.
College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Health in the home: a tradition of print and practice / Charles E. Rosenberg -- How to eat like a gentleman: dietetics and ethics in early modern England / Steven Shapin -- Making a masterpiece: the Aristotle texts in vernacular medical culture / Mary E. Fissell -- The maternal physician: teaching American mothers to put the baby in the bathwater / Kathleen Brown -- Rules, remedies, and regimens: health advice in early American almanacs / Thomas A. Horrocks -- Conflict and self-sufficiency: domestic medicine in the American South / Steven Stowe -- Advertising health to the people: the early illustrated posters / William H. Helfand -- Passions and perversions: the radical ambition of Dr. Thomas Low Nichols / Jean Silver-Isenstadt -- Sex, science, and salvation: the sexual advice of Ellen G. White and John Harvey Kellogg / Ronald L. Numbers.

ISBN:

9780801871894 (alk. paper)
0801871891 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49853269

LCCN:

2002007592

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)