TY - JOUR
AU - LIBSTER, MARTHA
AB - BOOK REVIEWS Right Living: An Anglo-Amerian Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene Edited by Charles E. Rosenberg (Mtimorc, MD: Johns Hopkns University Press, 2003) (236 pages; $40.00 cloth) Is the focus of historicd research of rhc hdng arts changing? History of science scholar Chahles Rosenberg may be suggesting just that. In the introduction to his latest book, Rkht Living An A&-Am&aa Tradition of &&We# Medicine sd H*unc, Rosenbcrg writes, "Younger scholars have cultivated a vigorous inumt in the perspective and experience of patients and everyday practitioners-lay people and alternative providers as well as mainsueam physiciaarW(p. vii). Perhaps one of the largest gaps day in rhc hmty of the healing arcs-medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and complementaq therapi-is he dearth of organized descriptive data on the experience of the American patient. Right Living exp1orcs the self-help practices of nineteenth-cenrury Ameria through the lens of the popular hdrh publications of dw period that guided self-help practice. The publications included are advice books, almanacs, pamphlets, receipt books, and bdides. Nineteenth-cenrury Ameria, in particular the antebellum period, is often considered the peak of the American advice book movement. Advice books and self-help wae not new ro Anglo-Americans, however. They broughr their cultural tradition of self-care 
TI - Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene
JF - Nursing History Review
DO - 10.1891/1062-8061.13.1.199
DA - 2005-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-publishing/right-living-an-anglo-american-tradition-of-self-help-medicine-and-70RnEUkN6N
SP - 199
EP - 201
VL - 13
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -