Author: Steven Zdatny
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135042871X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as 'modernization' -a process that remade culture and society in France in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hygiene, Steven Zdatny convincingly contends, was that change. He reflects on how the development of hygiene: changed the way people thought about and treated their bodies; put an end to age-old afflictions and brought comfort where discomfort had been the unavoidable companion of existence; and helped produce a tripling of life expectancy. The book considers how the evolution of hygiene produced a society where people washed often, changed their clothes every day, lived without lice and scabies, and performed their natural functions indoors. It reflects on developments in industrial plumbing, public education, government investment, the invention of new products to keep bodies and homes clean, and a parallel makeover in the expectations, sensibilities, and practices about what is 'proper' and what is disgusting. These developments, the study reveals, were not steady and did not happen everywhere at the same pace. But in the fullness of time, they produced a revolution in the human condition.
A History of Hygiene in Modern France
Author: Steven Zdatny
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135042871X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as 'modernization' -a process that remade culture and society in France in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hygiene, Steven Zdatny convincingly contends, was that change. He reflects on how the development of hygiene: changed the way people thought about and treated their bodies; put an end to age-old afflictions and brought comfort where discomfort had been the unavoidable companion of existence; and helped produce a tripling of life expectancy. The book considers how the evolution of hygiene produced a society where people washed often, changed their clothes every day, lived without lice and scabies, and performed their natural functions indoors. It reflects on developments in industrial plumbing, public education, government investment, the invention of new products to keep bodies and homes clean, and a parallel makeover in the expectations, sensibilities, and practices about what is 'proper' and what is disgusting. These developments, the study reveals, were not steady and did not happen everywhere at the same pace. But in the fullness of time, they produced a revolution in the human condition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135042871X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as 'modernization' -a process that remade culture and society in France in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hygiene, Steven Zdatny convincingly contends, was that change. He reflects on how the development of hygiene: changed the way people thought about and treated their bodies; put an end to age-old afflictions and brought comfort where discomfort had been the unavoidable companion of existence; and helped produce a tripling of life expectancy. The book considers how the evolution of hygiene produced a society where people washed often, changed their clothes every day, lived without lice and scabies, and performed their natural functions indoors. It reflects on developments in industrial plumbing, public education, government investment, the invention of new products to keep bodies and homes clean, and a parallel makeover in the expectations, sensibilities, and practices about what is 'proper' and what is disgusting. These developments, the study reveals, were not steady and did not happen everywhere at the same pace. But in the fullness of time, they produced a revolution in the human condition.
A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health
Author: Albert Henry Buck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Author:
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738182755
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738182755
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Health in France
Author: France. Haut Comité de la santé publique
Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext
ISBN: 9782742001552
Category : Medical policy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext
ISBN: 9782742001552
Category : Medical policy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Cyclopædia of the Practice of Medicine
Author: Hugo Ziemssen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clinical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clinical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Cyclopædia of the practice of medicine v. 18, 1879
Author: Hugo Ziemssen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description