For Their Own Good : The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 / / Lucinda McCray Beier

• Autore: Beier Lucinda McCray
• Pubblicazione: Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 409 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.10941
• Soggetto topico: Social Medicine - history - England; Social Class - England; History, 20th Century - England; History, 19th Century - England; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice - England; Attitude to Health - England; Urban Health Services - history - England; Public health - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Public health - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Working class - Medical care - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Working class - Medical care - Great Britain - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-392) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "Every street had its lady" : working-class health culture before World War II -- "We know what's good for you" : formal health care provision in Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston -- "No fever in our house" : contagion, prevention, and the working class -- "They never told us anything" : sex and family limitation -- "With having my mother, I didn't need any advice off anybody else" : bearing and caring for children -- "By gum, we did enjoy it" : popular media and the construction of modern health culture -- "The best thing since wearing boots" : working-class health culture after 1948.
• Titolo autorizzato: For Their Own Good
• ISBN: 0-8142-7171-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910164942103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II