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A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929
"Science and The Way to Health" by Andress and Brown
It is an age of skyscrapers, submarines, airplanes, dirigibles, phonographs, safety razors, radios, electric lights, steam and hot-water heat, gas stoves, vacuum cleaners, and other wonderful inventions. The book would be branded as Eurocentric, racist, and white supremacist, since it doesn’t give equal space to describing the intellectual achievements of the Zulu or to recognizing the validity of indigenous ways of knowing. Lister is described as “the prince of surgeons,” and it is said that “every modern hospital today is in a sense a monument to the intelligence and skill of Joseph Lister.” Words like “distinguished,” “beloved,” and “great” pepper the prose.
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