Health and the Modern Home

Abstract

1. 'Home sweet home': historical perspectives on health and the home, Mark Jackson Part One Emotional health and the home 2. '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 3. Desperate housewives and model amoebae: the invention of suburban neurosis in inter-war Britain, Rhodri Hayward 4. Anne Sexton's poetics of the suburbs, Jo Gill 5. Housewives, neuroses and the domestic environment in Britain, 1945-70, Ali Haggett 6. 'I thought you would want to come and see his home': child guidance and psychiatric social work in inter-war period Britain, John Stewart 7. Rabbits and rebels: the medicalisation of maladjusted children in mid-twentieth-century Britain, Sarah Hayes 8. 'Allergy con amore': psychosomatic medicine and the 'asthmogenic home' in the mid-twentieth century, Mark Jackson Part Two Housing, health and home 9. 'Skeletons in the medicine closet': women and 'rational consumption' in the inter-war American home, Nancy Tomes 10. The home fires: heat, health and atmospheric pollution in Britain, 1900-45, Stephen Mosley 11. Coal, clean air and the regulation of the domestic hearth in post-war Britain, Catherine Mills 12. Cockroaches, housing, and race: a history of asthma and urban ecology in America, Gregg Mitman 13. Social science, housing and the debate over transmitted deprivation, John Welshman 14. The home as environment: changing understandings from the history of childhood lead poisoning, John Burnham 15. Into the mouths of babes: hyperactivity, food additives, and the reception of the Feingold diet, Matthew Smith Contributors Index