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Zusatztext The book’s outstanding strength is the way Akiyama enhances understanding of the role of these schools and, in particular, the role of health reformers who promoted cookery education as a means of caring for the sick. Informationen zum Autor Yuriko Akiyama completed her PhD at Kings College! University of London. Klappentext Reveals how cookery came to be seen as an important part of medical care and diet! revolutionising the nation's health. This book assesses the impact of nutrition in hospitals! schools and the military and explores the challenges and struggles faced by those who undertook work to educate the nation in the areas of sanitation! medicine and food. Reveals how cookery came to be seen as an important part of medical care and diet, revolutionizing the nation's health. Zusammenfassung Reveals how cookery came to be seen as an important part of medical care and diet, revolutionising the nation's health. This book assesses the impact of nutrition in hospitals, schools and the military and explores the challenges and struggles faced by those who undertook work to educate the nation in the areas of sanitation, medicine and food. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents1. Health Reformers and Cookery Schools in nineteenth-century Britain 2. Cookery for Poor Girls 3. Cookery Education, Mothercare and Schoolchildren 4. Nightingale, Lückes and Feeding the Sick 5. Nursing Instruction and Hospital Cookery 6. Cooking and the Health of the Army: from the Crimea to the Great War 7. Cooking in the Royal Navy 8. Naval Hospital and Sick Berth Cookery before 1914 Conclusion...
