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11%OFFElaine G. Breslaw - Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America - 9781479807048 - V9781479807048
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Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America

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Description for Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America Paperback. Health in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. This book describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions. Num Pages: 251 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.

Health in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. Practitioners of traditional forms of health care enjoyed high social status, and the cures they offered—from purging to mere palliatives—carried a powerful authority. Consequently, most American doctors felt little need to keep up with Europe’s medical advances relying heavily on their traditional depletion methods. However, in the years following the American Revolution as poverty increased and America’s water and air became more polluted, people grew sicker. Traditional medicine became increasingly ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New York University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
251
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479807048
SKU
V9781479807048
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About Elaine G. Breslaw
Elaine G. Breslaw retired as Professor of History from Morgan State University in Baltimore after 29 years and has taught on an adjunct basis at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (NYU Press, 1995), Witches of the Atlantic World: An ... Read more

Reviews for Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America
[Breslaw] provides a powerful and cautionary reminder that understanding those practices is impossible without close attention to power.
Simon Finger
Journal of American History
Many histories chronicle American medicine's transformation from its chaotic and disorganized beginnings into 'scientific medicine' in the late nineteenth and twentiethcenturies. By synthesizing secondary sources in a tightly packed two hundred pages, Elaine ... Read more

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