For their own good
Subtitle: the transformation of English working-class health culture, 1880-1970
By: Lucinda McCray Beier.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780814210949
Subjects: Working class -- Medical care -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Working class -- Medical care -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Public health -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Public health -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Urban Health Services -- history -- England; Attitude to Health -- England; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice -- England; History, 19th Century -- England; History, 20th Century -- England; Social Class -- England; Social Medicine -- history -- England
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Every street had its lady" : working-class health culture before World War II; title: "We know what's good for you" : formal health care provision in Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston; title: "No fever in our house" : contagion, prevention, and the working class; title: "They never told us anything" : sex and family limitation; title: "With having my mother, I didn't need any advice off anybody else" : bearing and caring for children; title: "By gum, we did enjoy it" : popular media and the construction of modern health culture; title: "The best thing since wearing boots" : working-class health culture after 1948.