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Language: en
Pages: 349
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
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Language: en
Pages: 396
Pages: 396
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
Drawing from a wide range of private and public sources, examines how American families gradually found access to taboo information and products for controlling
Language: en
Pages: 387
Pages: 387
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-20 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of everyday medic
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This is a study of some of the central questions in literary publishing in mid-nineteenth-century North America and Britain, addressed through examination of th
Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-05-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Prior to the nineteenth century, the practice of medicine in the Western world was as much art as science. But, argues W. F. Bynum, 'modern' medicine as practic