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Health and the modern home ...
Contents: 'Home sweet home': historical perspectives on health and the home / Mark Jackson -- '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 -- Desperate housewives and model amoebae: the invention of suburban neurosis in inter-war Britain / Rhodri Hayward -- Anne Sexton's poetics of the suburbs / Jo Gill -- Housewives, neuroses and the domestic environment in Britain, 1945-70 / Ali Haggett -- 'I thought you would want to come and see his home': child guidance and psychiatric social work in inter-war period Britain / John Stewart -- Rabbits and rebels: the medicalisation of maladjusted children in mid-twentieth-century Britain / Sarah Hayes -- 'Allergy con amore': psychosomatic medicine and the 'asthmogenic home' in the mid-twentieth century / Mark Jackson -- 'Skeletons in the medicine closet': women and 'rational consumption' in the inter-war American home / Nancy Tomes -- The home fires: heat, health and atmospheric pollution in Britain, 1900-45 / Stephen Mosley -- Coal, clean air and the regulation of the domestic hearth in post-war Britain / Catherine Mills -- Cockroaches, housing, and race: a history of asthma and urban ecology in America / Gregg Mitman -- Social science, housing and the debate over transmitted deprivation / John Welshman -- The home as environment: changing understandings from the history of childhood lead poisoning / John Burnham -- Into the mouths of babes: hyperactivity, food additives, and the reception of the Feingold diet / Matthew Smith
Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period. Drawing on recent scholarship, Jackson exposes the socio-political context in which the physical and emotional environment of the modern home and family became implicated in the maintenance of health and in the aetiology and pathogenesis of diverse psychological and physical conditions
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monografia Rebiun08631949 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun08631949 100603s2008 xxu 001 0 eng d 2007030644 0-415-95610-2 978-0-415-95610-9 UMH 991000158019706331 DNLM/DLC. DLC. DLC. UNAV. UMH 364 614 Health and the modern home edited by Mark Jackson New York Abingdon, Oxon (UK) Routledge 2008 New York Abingdon, Oxon (UK) New York Abingdon, Oxon (UK) Routledge VIII, 339 p. 24 cm VIII, 339 p. Routledge studies in the social history of medicine 31 Bibliografía Índice Contents: 'Home sweet home': historical perspectives on health and the home / Mark Jackson -- '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 -- Desperate housewives and model amoebae: the invention of suburban neurosis in inter-war Britain / Rhodri Hayward -- Anne Sexton's poetics of the suburbs / Jo Gill -- Housewives, neuroses and the domestic environment in Britain, 1945-70 / Ali Haggett -- 'I thought you would want to come and see his home': child guidance and psychiatric social work in inter-war period Britain / John Stewart -- Rabbits and rebels: the medicalisation of maladjusted children in mid-twentieth-century Britain / Sarah Hayes -- 'Allergy con amore': psychosomatic medicine and the 'asthmogenic home' in the mid-twentieth century / Mark Jackson -- 'Skeletons in the medicine closet': women and 'rational consumption' in the inter-war American home / Nancy Tomes -- The home fires: heat, health and atmospheric pollution in Britain, 1900-45 / Stephen Mosley -- Coal, clean air and the regulation of the domestic hearth in post-war Britain / Catherine Mills -- Cockroaches, housing, and race: a history of asthma and urban ecology in America / Gregg Mitman -- Social science, housing and the debate over transmitted deprivation / John Welshman -- The home as environment: changing understandings from the history of childhood lead poisoning / John Burnham -- Into the mouths of babes: hyperactivity, food additives, and the reception of the Feingold diet / Matthew Smith Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period. Drawing on recent scholarship, Jackson exposes the socio-political context in which the physical and emotional environment of the modern home and family became implicated in the maintenance of health and in the aetiology and pathogenesis of diverse psychological and physical conditions Familia- Sanidad e higiene- Gran Bretaña- s.20 Familia- Sanidad e higiene- Estados Unidos- s.20 Vivienda y salud- Gran Bretaña- s.20 Vivienda y salud- Estados Unidos- s.20 Kurz, Ron 1959-)