Health and the modern home
By: edited by Mark Jackson.
Contributors: Jackson, Mark, 1959-
Series: Routledge studies in the social history of medicine -- 31
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780415956109; 9780203932414
Subjects: Housing and health -- Great Britain -- History; Housing and health -- United States -- History; Families -- Mental health -- Great Britain -- History; Families -- Mental health -- United States -- History; Families -- Health and hygiene -- Great Britain -- History; Families -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History; Environmental Illness -- etiology -- Great Britain; Environmental Illness -- etiology -- United States; Environmental Illness -- history -- Great Britain; Environmental Illness -- history -- United States; Housing -- history -- Great Britain; Housing -- history -- United States; Family Relations -- Great Britain; Family Relations -- United States; History, 20th Century -- Great Britain; History, 20th Century -- United States; Psychophysiologic Disorders -- etiology -- Great Britain; Psychophysiologic Disorders -- etiology -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Home sweet home': historical perspectives on health and the home / Mark Jackson; title: A bill of divorcement: theatrical and cinematic portrayals of mental and marital breakdown in a dysfunctional upper-middle-class family, 1921-1932 / Michael J. Clark; title: Desperate housewives and model amoebae: the invention of suburban neurosis in inter-war Britain / Rhodri Hayward; title: Anne Sexton's poetics of the suburbs / Jo Gill; title: Housewives, neuroses, and the domestic environment in Britain, 1945-70 / Ali Haggett; title: 'I thought you would want to come and see his home': child guidance and psychiatric social work in inter-war Britain / John Stewart; title: Rabbits and rebels: the medicalisation of maladjusted children in mid-twentieth-century Britain / Sarah Hayes; title: 'Allergy con amore': psychosomatic medicine and the 'asthmogenic home' in the mid-twentieth century / Mark Jackson; title: 'Skeletons in the medicine closet': women and 'rational consumption' in the inter-war American home / Nancy Tomes; title: The home fires: heat, health, and atmospheric pollution in Britain, 1900-45 / Stephen Mosley; title: Coal, clean air, and the regulation of the domestic hearth in post-war Britain / Catherine Mills; title: Cockroaches, housing, and race: a history of asthma and urban ecology in America / Gregg Mitman; title: Social science, housing, and the debate over transmitted deprivation / John Welshman; title: The home as environment: changing understandings from the history of childhood lead poisoning / John Burnham; title: Into the mouths of babes: hyperactivity, food additives, and the reception of the Feingold diet / Matthew Smith.