Shows how the scientific knowledge about the role of microorganisms in disease made its way into American popular culture.

Annotation Reports Nightingale's accomplishments in developing a public heath care system based on disease prevention. Includes papers, letters and "Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes."

"Decades of research link mindfulness to improvements in every dimension of health.

Historical Context: The book sheds light on the prevailing attitudes toward health, hygiene, and eugenics in the early 20th century. B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols were American authors and educators.

The book reveals, for instance, that even at the earliest stages of human development, our bodies produced pleasure-giving chemical opiates when things smelled or felt clean, inducing us to bathe or at least remove dirty clothes.

With her second husband, medical writer and social reformer Thomas Low Nichols, she embarked on an unprecedented intellectual and professional collaboration, and together they challenged the inequities of conventional marriage, demanded the ...

Broad in historical scope and imaginative in its insights, this book expands the topic of cleanliness to encompass much larger issues, including religion, health, gender, class, and race relations.

Hoy details the efforts to convince African-Americans and immigrants of the importance of cleanliness, examining the efforts of Booker T.