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Health and the Modern Home (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine) - Softcover

Book 22 of 35: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
 
9781138881433: Health and the Modern Home (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine)
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ISBN 10: 1138881430 ISBN 13: 9781138881433
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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, contributors expose 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. In addition, they critically analyze the manner in which the expression and articulation of medical concerns about the domestic environment served to legitimate particular political and ideological positions.

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About the Author

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).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138881430
ISBN 13 
9781138881433
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
352
Editor
Jackson Mark