Making Sense of Self: Medical Advice Literature in Late Nineteenth-Century America

by Michael Fellman and Anita Clair Fellman

Book Overview

Seeking the key to good living through physical well-being, the American public since at least the 1830s has devoured literature proffering medical advice. Making Sense of Self is an historical analysis of the ideological content of a broad sample of late nineteenth-century popular advice literature concerning the body and the mind. At a time when the middle class was threatened with tumultuous social and economic change, such publications...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812278100
• ISBN13: 9780812278101
• Release Date: December 1981
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary