ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|156 pages
Emotional Health and the Home
chapter 2|21 pages
A Bill of Divorcement
Theatrical and Cinematic Portrayals of Mental and Marital Breakdown in a Dysfunctional Upper-Middle-Class Family, 1921–1932
chapter 3|21 pages
Desperate Housewives and Model Amoebae
The Invention of Suburban Neurosis in Inter-War Britain
chapter 6|17 pages
‘I Thought You Would Want to Come and See His Home': 1
Child Guidance and Psychiatric Social Work in Inter-War Britain
chapter 7|25 pages
Rabbits and Rebels
The Medicalisation of Maladjusted Children in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
chapter 8|22 pages
‘Allergy con amore'
Psychosomatic Medicine and the ‘Asthmogenic Home' in the Mid-Twentieth Century
part 2|147 pages
Housing, Health, and Home
chapter 9|19 pages
‘Skeletons in the Medicine Closet'
Women and ‘Rational Consumption' in the Inter-War American Home
chapter 12|22 pages
Cockroaches, Housing, and Race
A History of Asthma and Urban Ecology in America
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chapter 14|19 pages
The Home as Environment
Changing Understandings from the History of Childhood Lead Poisoning
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chapter 15|18 pages
Into the Mouths of Babes
Hyperactivity, Food Additives, and the Reception of the Feingold Diet
