"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.
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