For their own good : the transformation of English working-class health culture, 1880-1970 / Lucinda McCray Beier.

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2008], ©2008.

x, 409 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-392) and index.

"Every street had its lady" : working-class health culture before World War II -- "We know what's good for you" : formal health care provision in Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston -- "No fever in our house" : contagion, prevention, and the working class -- "They never told us anything" : sex and family limitation -- "With having my mother, I didn't need any advice off anybody else" : bearing and caring for children -- "By gum, we did enjoy it" : popular media and the construction of modern health culture -- "The best thing since wearing boots" : working-class health culture after 1948.