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
chapter 3|21 pages
Desperate Housewives and Model Amoebae
chapter 6|17 pages
‘I Thought You Would Want to Come and See His Home': 1
chapter 7|25 pages
Rabbits and Rebels
chapter 8|22 pages
‘Allergy con amore'
part 2|147 pages
Housing, Health, and Home