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Health and the modern home
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Health and the modern home

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'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.

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Health and the modern home. ISBN 9780203932414. Published by Routledge in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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