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13 produkter
The Arsenic Century
How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
Häftad, 2011
187 kr
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Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken …
Nature Cures
The History of Alternative Medicine in America
E-bok, 2002
296 kr
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From reflexology and rolfing to shiatsu and dream work, we are confronted today by a welter of alternative medical therapies. But as James Whorton shows in Nature Cures , the recent explosion in alternative medicine actually reflects two centuries of competition and conflict between mainstream …
Arsenic Century
How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
E-bok, 2010
164 kr
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Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident.Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken …
Arsenic Century
How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
E-bok, 2010
164 kr
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Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident.Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken …
Inner Hygiene
Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society
Inbunden, 2000
1186 kr
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Inner Hygiene explores the serious health threat of constipation, and discusses the extraordinary variety of preventive and curative measures that have been developed to save people from the toxic effects of intestinal irregularity. The book examines the evolution over the last two centuries of the …
Nature Cures
The History of Alternative Medicine in America
E-bok, 2002
302 kr
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From reflexology and rolfing to shiatsu and dream work, we are confronted today by a welter of alternative medical therapies. But as James Whorton shows in Nature Cures , the recent explosion in alternative medicine actually reflects two centuries of competition and conflict between mainstream …
Crusaders for Fitness
The History of American Health Reformers
Häftad, 2014
624 kr
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To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns were not mere fads but ideologies composed of a mixture of religious and scientific ideas and themes from the popular culture. Originally published in …
Before Silent Spring
Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America
Häftad, 2015
642 kr
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Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the …
Crusaders for Fitness
The History of American Health Reformers
Inbunden, 2016
2768 kr
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To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns were not mere fads but ideologies composed of a mixture of religious and scientific ideas and themes from the popular culture. Originally published in …
Before Silent Spring
Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America
Inbunden, 2016
2768 kr
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Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the …
Crusaders for Fitness
The History of American Health Reformers
E-bok, 2014
878 kr
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To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns were not mere fads but ideologies composed of a mixture of religious and scientific ideas and themes from the popular culture.Originally published in …
Before Silent Spring
Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America
E-bok, 2015
856 kr
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Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton''s history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the …
