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

• 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.

• The nine papers of this collection are the result of an exhibit and conference on print culture and popular health that were organized by the Library Company of Philadelphia and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (the date is not indicated). The contributors, who teach history and history of science in the US, have written on several themes to be found in early American health publications, including the links to earlier English and European health traditions, sexual relations and childrearing, and domestic practice. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). 

Ämnesord

Manners and customs.  (LCSH)

Medicine, Popular  -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Medicine, Popular  -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Self-care, Health  -- United States -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Self-care, Health  -- United States -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

History, Modern 1601-  (MeSH)

Cultural Characteristics  (MeSH)

Health Education  -- history (MeSH)

Health Promotion  -- history (MeSH)

Self Care  -- history (MeSH)

Mœurs et coutumes.  (Vedettes-matière)

Médecine  -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation -- Histoire -- 18e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Médecine  -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Autothérapie  -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 18e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Autothérapie  -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Médecine  -- Histoire -- 1500- (Vedettes-matière)

customs (social concepts)  (aat)

Manners and customs  (fast)

Medicine, Popular  (fast)

Self-care, Health  (fast)

Laienmedizin  (gnd)

Aufsatzsammlung  (gnd)

Selbsttherapie  (gnd)

Ratgeber  (gnd)

Egenvård  -- historia (sao)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

United Kingdom  (MeSH)

United States  (MeSH)

United States  (fast)

Großbritannien  (gnd)

USA  (gnd)

1700-talet  (sao)

1800-talet  (sao)

1700-1899  (fast)

Geschichte 1700-1900  (swd)

Genre

History  (fast)

Klassifikation

RC81 (LCC)

2003 J-547 (NLM)

WZ 70 AA1 (NLM)

613.097309033 (DDC)

Vnaaa (kssb/8 (machine generated))