[Ads-l] Self-care

[George Thompson]

Theresa Fisher asks: Hi! I'm trying to figure out when the term "self-care"
emerged. I've read a number articles that trace the history of the
self-care movement. But I'm having trouble finding information about the
origins of the term itself.   This Slate story suggests that self-care
emerged as a medical concept at some point before the mid-20th century, and
then acquired political meaning in the 1960s or 70s.
I have no idea what the political meaning of self-care might be.
I checked the Proquest database of American 'Historical Newspapers."
There were a couple of appearances of the term with reference to women
caring for their beauty at the beginning of the 20th century, then a lull.
In the 1930s it appeared as a beauty tip, a medical term, and in a Nazi
context. &c..
There was a great drop-off in the term appearing in headlines in the 2010s,
from the 2000s.

Go to your library and talk to a librarian to check this and similar
databases, more thoroughly.

GAT

Let Summer Days Help You in Keeping Your Skin Lovely: Summer Can Be Big
Beauty Aid If You'll Let It Warm Weather Ideal Time to Care for
Skin.   Chicago Daily Tribune,  July, 1931 LIFE SPAN OF 70 SEEN BY MAYO IN
25 YEARS: But 12-Year Gain Depends on Man's Self-Care Between 30 and 50,
Says Physician   NYTimes, October 1931

 REICH MAKES JEWS JOIN FOR SELF-CARE: All Placed in One Organization
Running Schools and Relief   NYTimes, July, 1939

-- 
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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