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Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Thomas A. Horrocks
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Description for Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Paperback. Demonstrates that the almanac was a leading source of health information in America prior to the Civil War. This book contends that the almanac was an integral component of a complicated, fragmented, semi-vernacular health literature of the period, and that the genre played a leading role in disseminating astrological health advice. Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; VFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
In this innovative study of the relationship between popular print and popular attitudes toward the body, health, and disease in antebellum America, Thomas A. Horrocks focuses our attention on a publication long neglected by scholars - the almanac. Approaching his subject as both a historian of the book and a historian of medicine, Horrocks contends that the almanac, the most popular secular publication in America from the late eighteenth century to the first quarter of the nineteenth, both shaped and was shaped by early Americans' beliefs and practices pertaining to health and medicine.Analyzing the astrological, therapeutic, and regimen advice offered ... Read more
In this innovative study of the relationship between popular print and popular attitudes toward the body, health, and disease in antebellum America, Thomas A. Horrocks focuses our attention on a publication long neglected by scholars - the almanac. Approaching his subject as both a historian of the book and a historian of medicine, Horrocks contends that the almanac, the most popular secular publication in America from the late eighteenth century to the first quarter of the nineteenth, both shaped and was shaped by early Americans' beliefs and practices pertaining to health and medicine.Analyzing the astrological, therapeutic, and regimen advice offered ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558496576
SKU
V9781558496576
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About Thomas A. Horrocks
THOMAS A. HORROCKS is associate librarian for collections at Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Reviews for Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Given the wide readership of almanacs in early America and their importance to the business of printing and publishing, the neglect of scholarship on almanacs verges on the scandalous.... Horrocks's intense focus, his broad range of primary sources, his grasp of the positions of other scholars, his crisp argumentation, and his clear, accessible prose combine to make this a valuable ... Read more