Research Catalog

Title

Collected works of Ellen H. Swallow Richards / edited and introduced by Kazuko Sumida.

Author

Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911

Publication

Tokyo : Edition Synapse, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sumida, Kazuko, 1943-

Description

5 v. : ill.; 22 cm. +

Summary

Ellen H. Swallow Richards (1842–1911) was the first woman graduate and staff member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the first woman professional chemist in the U.S. She was known mainly as a founder of the American home economics movement and, to a lesser extent, as the mother of American public health. Her contribution included not only the establishment of the standards for water analysis, but also the provision of school lunches, food and environmental education, and the consumer movement. Through such activities, Richards showed people a new direction to follow for modernized home and urban life. She is deserving of special attention as a woman who was active both academically and socially from the late 19th century to the early 20th century when the foundation of modern society in the U.S. was laid. This collection provides primary sources which will enable the reader to have a proper understanding of the thoughts of Richards who advocated a science of environment as early as the 19th century. She considered environment to be a total whole, and was active in pursuit of what science, human possibility or development should be. For her, environmental education was strongly linked to social and ethical issues, and the key to the solution for these was the very human activities in daily life affecting their environment. Richards, whose cooperative belief that ‘man is a part of organic nature, subject to laws of development and growth’ (Euthenics) was a basis of daily life, cannot be called merely a material feminist―(which a certain scholar classified her as). What she had in mind means ‘the man in the community environment’. These materials are essential for interdisciplinary research that includes multiple fields such as the history of science, of education, of ideas, social history of the U.S., sociology, and feminism as well as home economics and public health. The thoughts and lifelong activities of Richards will show us a direction at which we ought to aim in current everyday life -- Preface.

Uniform Title

Works. 2007

Alternative Title

Works. 2007

Subjects

• Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
• Public Health
• Nutrition
• Hygiene
• Public health
• Euthenics
• Home economics
• Sanitary chemistry

Note

• Accompanied by supplement: Introduction in Japanese / by Kazuko Sumida.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Volume 1. First Lessons in Minerals -- The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning -- Food Materials and their Adulterations -- Home Sanitation: A Manual for Housekeepers -- "The Relation of College Women to Progress in Domestic Science" -- "Domestic Science, What it is and How to Study it at Home."
• Volume 2. The Cost of Living as Modified by Sanitary Science -- Plain Words about Food: The Rumford Kitchen Leaflets -- Air, Water, and Food: From a Sanitary Standpoint.
• Volume 3. The Cost of Food: A Study in Dietaries -- The Dietary Computer -- The Art of Right Living -- The First Lessons in Food and Diet -- "Ten Years of The Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics; Its History and Aim" -- Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics, Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference.
• Volume 4. The Cost of Shelter -- Sanitation in Daily Life -- Laboratory Notes on Industrial Water Analysis; A Survey Course for Engineers -- The Cost of Cleanness -- "Influence of Industrial Arts and Science upon Rural and City Home Life."
• Volume 5. Euthenics: the Science of Controllable Environment: A Plea/or Better Living Conditions as a First Step toward Higher Human Efficiency -- Conservation by Sanitation: Air and Water Supply, Disposal of Waste -- "The Elevation of Applied Science to an Equal Rank with the So-Called Learned Professions" -- "Social Significance of Home Economics Movement."

ISBN

• 9784861660481
• 4861660483

OCLC

• 213855138
• SCSB-10995217

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library