Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought and The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System, both available from Johns Hopkins.

Bibliophiles, medical historians, and collectors of Americana will find this extremely well documented book a treasure trove of information. Choice 2003 This intriguing collection,... which features some beautifully reproduced illustrated posters from the mid-nineteenth century, is a welcome contribution to the histories of print culture, the mass market, and medicine. By demonstrating how these three histories have been intertwined, it is also a pioneering one. JAMA

• Contents:Preface1 Health in the Home A Tradition of Print and Practice CHARLES E. ROSENBERG2 How to Eat Like a Gentleman Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England STEVEN SHAPIN3 Making a Masterpiece The Aristotle Texts in Vernacular Medical Culture MARY E. FISSELL4 The Material Physician Teaching American Mothers to Put the Baby in the Bathwater KATHLEEN BROWN5 Rules, Remedies, and Regimens Health Advice in Early American Almanacs THOMAS A. HORROCKS6 Conflict and Self-Sufficiency Domestic Medicine in the American South STEVEN STOWE7 Advertising Health to the People The Early Illustrated Posters WILLIAM H. HELFAND8 Passions and Perversions The Radical Ambition of Dr. Thomas Low Nichols JEAN SILVER-ISENSTADT9 Sex, Science, and Salvation The Sexual Advice of Ellen G. White and John Harvey Kellogg RONALD L. NUMBERSContributors Index

Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought and The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System, both available from Johns Hopkins.

Bibliophiles, medical historians, and collectors of Americana will find this extremely well documented book a treasure trove of information. Choice 2003 This intriguing collection,... which features some beautifully reproduced illustrated posters from the mid-nineteenth century, is a welcome contribution to the histories of print culture, the mass market, and medicine. By demonstrating how these three histories have been intertwined, it is also a pioneering one. JAMA

• Contents:Preface1 Health in the Home A Tradition of Print and Practice CHARLES E. ROSENBERG2 How to Eat Like a Gentleman Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England STEVEN SHAPIN3 Making a Masterpiece The Aristotle Texts in Vernacular Medical Culture MARY E. FISSELL4 The Material Physician Teaching American Mothers to Put the Baby in the Bathwater KATHLEEN BROWN5 Rules, Remedies, and Regimens Health Advice in Early American Almanacs THOMAS A. HORROCKS6 Conflict and Self-Sufficiency Domestic Medicine in the American South STEVEN STOWE7 Advertising Health to the People The Early Illustrated Posters WILLIAM H. HELFAND8 Passions and Perversions The Radical Ambition of Dr. Thomas Low Nichols JEAN SILVER-ISENSTADT9 Sex, Science, and Salvation The Sexual Advice of Ellen G. White and John Harvey Kellogg RONALD L. NUMBERSContributors Index

Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought and The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System, both available from Johns Hopkins.

Bibliophiles, medical historians, and collectors of Americana will find this extremely well documented book a treasure trove of information. Choice 2003 This intriguing collection,... which features some beautifully reproduced illustrated posters from the mid-nineteenth century, is a welcome contribution to the histories of print culture, the mass market, and medicine. By demonstrating how these three histories have been intertwined, it is also a pioneering one. JAMA

• Contents:Preface1 Health in the Home A Tradition of Print and Practice CHARLES E. ROSENBERG2 How to Eat Like a Gentleman Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England STEVEN SHAPIN3 Making a Masterpiece The Aristotle Texts in Vernacular Medical Culture MARY E. FISSELL4 The Material Physician Teaching American Mothers to Put the Baby in the Bathwater KATHLEEN BROWN5 Rules, Remedies, and Regimens Health Advice in Early American Almanacs THOMAS A. HORROCKS6 Conflict and Self-Sufficiency Domestic Medicine in the American South STEVEN STOWE7 Advertising Health to the People The Early Illustrated Posters WILLIAM H. HELFAND8 Passions and Perversions The Radical Ambition of Dr. Thomas Low Nichols JEAN SILVER-ISENSTADT9 Sex, Science, and Salvation The Sexual Advice of Ellen G. White and John Harvey Kellogg RONALD L. NUMBERSContributors Index