Book ID: CBB000320319

Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene (2003)

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Rosenberg, Charles E. (Editor)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2003
Edition Details: Published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Physical Details: x + 236 pp.; plates; illus; bib.; index
Language: English

Description Harvard University collection of new essays on 18th- and 19th-century use of medical books and pamphlets.


Reviewed By

Review Eden, Trudy (2004) Review of "Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 183). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Numbers, Ronald L. (2003) Sex, Science, and Salvation: The Sexual Advice of Ellen G. White and John Harvey Kellogg. In: Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. unapi

Chapter Rosenberg, Charles E. (2003) Health in the home: A tradition of print and practice. In: Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. unapi

Chapter Shapin, Steven (2003) How to eat like a gentleman: Dietetics and ethics in early modern England. In: Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. unapi

Chapter Fissell, Mary E. (2003) Making a masterpiece: The Aristotle texts in vernacular medical culture. In: Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. unapi

Chapter Brown, Kathleen (2003) The maternal physician: Teaching American mothers to put the baby in the bathwater. In: Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. unapi

Chapter Horrocks, Thomas A. (2003) Rules, remedies, and regimens: Health advice in early American almanacs. In: Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. unapi

Chapter Stowe, Steven (2003) Conflict and self-sufficiency: Domestic medicine in the American South. In: Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. unapi

Chapter Helfand, William H. (2003) Advertising health to the people: The early illustrated posters. In: Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. unapi

Chapter Silver-Isenstadt, Jean (2003) Passions and perversions: The radical ambition of Dr. Thomas Low Nichols. In: Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Douglas D. Scott
Eric H. Walther
P. Willey
Gurstelle, Krystyna Herian
Visse, Merel
Dorner, Zachary
Concepts
Medicine
Health
Medicine and religion
Public understanding of medicine
Science and religion
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
Early modern
21st century
Places
United States
England
Italy
San Francisco (California)
Washington (state, U.S.)
Wales
Institutions
United States. Army
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