The promotion and pursuit of health, 1780-1880

This thesis represents an attempt to encourage a new perspective on health in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century by concentrating on the ‘mundane maladies’ of the middle classes. The conventional approach to studies of urban health has been to concentrate on the killer diseases of the period...

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Main Author: Davies, Timothy Harvey
Other Authors: Sweet, R. ; Rodger, R.
Published: University of Leicester 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520014