Foul bodies : cleanliness in early America / Kathleen M. Brown.
- Brown, Kathleen M., 1960-
- Date:
- [2009], ©2009
- Books
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Publication/Creation
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009], ©2009.
Physical description
xiv, 450 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-435) and index.
Contents
Caring for the early modern body -- Skin -- Corruption -- Empire's new clothes -- Gentility -- Virtue -- Reimagining sickness and health -- Healing housework -- Redemption -- Laborers -- Immersion -- Mission.
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Location Status History of MedicineJK.6.AA6-8Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780300106183
- 0300106181