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We Lived for the Body : Natural Medicine and Public Health in Imperial Germany /

Nature was central to the Wilhelmine German experience. Medical cosmologies and reform-initiatives were a key to consumer practices and lifestyle choices. Nature's appeal transcended class, confession, and political party. Millions of Germans recognized that nature had healing effects and was i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sharma, Avi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: Progress Reconsidered: Natural Healing and Germany's Long Nineteenth Century
  • 1. CREATING NATURE'S REPUBLIC: From Natural Therapies to Self-Help in Germany, 1800-1870
  • 2. WILHELMINE NATURE: Natural Lifestyle and Practical Politics in the German Life- Reform Movement, 1890-1914
  • 3. CONTESTING THE MEDICAL MARKETPLACE: Politics, Publicity, and Scientific Progress, 1869-1910
  • 4. SCIENCE FROM THE MARGINS? Naturheilkunde from Outsider Medicine to the University of Berlin, 1889-1920
  • 5. ANTI-VACCINE AGITATION, PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS, AND THE STATE IN GERMANY, 1874-1914
  • CONCLUSION: Rethinking Medicine and Modernity: Popular Medicine in Practice
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX