Table of Contents

The International Health Exhibition of 1884; doctors and architects; female regulation of the healthy home; childbirth at home; domestic architecture and Victorian feminism.

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A revealing look at the forces influencing domestic life, health, and architecture in Victorian England.

Reviews

"Combining sophisticated interpretation of building designs with a solid grasp of medical and women's history, Adams has written an imaginative, interesting book about the rise of the 'house doctor' in late nineteenth-century England." Bulletin of the History of Medicine;"Adams's argument is original, insightful, and provides a very different way of understanding architecture from the modes usually employed by architectural historians. Architecture in the Family Way is a very smart, intellectually inventive, and well-written demonstration of how architecture is implicated in a broad array of social changes." Elizabeth Cromley, School of Architecture, SUNY Buffalo.;"An extremely interesting subject. Adams has successfully brought together three distinct themes: the history of domestic architecture, the development of the hygiene movement, and the involvement of women in promoting the healthy home. I recommend the book most highly." Tanis Hinchcliffe, School of Architecture, University of Westminster.