Crusaders for Fitness : The History of American Health Reformers /
To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns were not mere fads but ideologies composed of a mixture of religious and scientific ideas and themes from the popular culture. Originally published in 1982...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1982]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The kingdom of health
- Chapter One. A fig for the doctors
- Chapter Two. Christian physiology
- Chapter Three. Tempest in a flesh-pot
- Chapter Four. Physical education
- Chapter Five. Hygiene in evolution
- Chapter Six. Physiologic optimism
- Chapter Seven. Muscular vegetarianism
- Chapter Eight. Uric acid and other fetishes
- Chapter Nine. Philosophy in the gymnasium
- Chapter Ten. The hygiene of the wheel
- Chapter Eleven. A modern conspectus
- Index.