Health and the Modern Home (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jackson, Mark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135913441
• Artikelnr.: 41505930

Autorenporträt

Mark Jackson is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of New-Born Child Murder (Manchester, 1996), The Borderland of Imbecility (Manchester, 2000), and Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (London, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. `Home sweet home': historical perspectives on health and the home
Mark Jackson Part One Emotional health and the home 2. `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 3. Desperate housewives and model amoebae: the invention of suburban neurosis in inter-war Britain
Rhodri Hayward 4. Anne Sexton's poetics of the suburbs
Jo Gill 5. Housewives
neuroses and the domestic environment in Britain
1945-70
Ali Haggett 6. `I thought you would want to come and see his home': child guidance and psychiatric social work in inter-war period Britain
John Stewart 7. Rabbits and rebels: the medicalisation of maladjusted children in mid-twentieth-century Britain
Sarah Hayes 8. `Allergy con amore': psychosomatic medicine and the `asthmogenic home' in the mid-twentieth century
Mark Jackson Part Two Housing
health and home 9. `Skeletons in the medicine closet': women and `rational consumption' in the inter-war American home
Nancy Tomes 10. The home fires: heat
health and atmospheric pollution in Britain
1900-45
Stephen Mosley 11. Coal
clean air and the regulation of the domestic hearth in post-war Britain
Catherine Mills 12. Cockroaches
housing
and race: a history of asthma and urban ecology in America
Gregg Mitman 13. Social science
housing and the debate over transmitted deprivation
John Welshman 14. The home as environment: changing understandings from the history of childhood lead poisoning
John Burnham 15. Into the mouths of babes: hyperactivity
food additives
and the reception of the Feingold diet
Matthew Smith Contributors Index