基本説明
Analyzes the early health-oriented books, pamphlets, and broadsides - their origins, content, role, and authorship.
Full Description
During the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth century, most Americans healed themselves at home, as their ancestors had done for centuries. They relied upon books and pamphlets addressing health and diseases, diet, exercise, sex, mental health-everything one needed to know about how to avoid illness and what to do if illness or injury should strike. In Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene, Charles E. Rosenberg and his co-authors analyze these early health-oriented books, pamphlets, and broadsides-their origins, content, role, and authorship-and contribute to our understanding of their role in everyday life. Right Living also offers insight into the world views and bedside practices of another time by examining the shaping and transmission of the English and continental tradition, the persistent interest in sexual relations and their consequences, and the changing uses of print as a commodity and as a product of specific, time-bound technologies. Contributors: Kathleen Brown, Mary E. Fissell, William H. Helfand, Thomas A. Horrocks, Ronald L. Numbers, Charles E. Rosenberg, Steven Shapin, Jean Silver-Isenstadt, Steven Stowe.
Contents
Contents:Preface1 Health in the Home A Tradition of Print and Practice CHARLES E. ROSENBERG2 How to Eat Like a Gentleman Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England STEVEN SHAPIN3 Making a Masterpiece The Aristotle Texts in Vernacular Medical Culture MARY E. FISSELL4 The Material Physician Teaching American Mothers to Put the Baby in the Bathwater KATHLEEN BROWN5 Rules, Remedies, and Regimens Health Advice in Early American Almanacs THOMAS A. HORROCKS6 Conflict and Self-Sufficiency Domestic Medicine in the American South STEVEN STOWE7 Advertising Health to the People The Early Illustrated Posters WILLIAM H. HELFAND8 Passions and Perversions The Radical Ambition of Dr. Thomas Low Nichols JEAN SILVER-ISENSTADT9 Sex, Science, and Salvation The Sexual Advice of Ellen G. White and John Harvey Kellogg RONALD L. NUMBERSContributors Index
