Crusaders for Fitness : The History of American Health Reformers /

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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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Main Author: Whorton, James C., 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1982]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Health reformers > United States > History.
Health attitudes > United States > History.
Sociale bewegingen.
Gezondheid.
Reform
Gesundheitswesen
Geschichte
Health reformers.
Health attitudes.
Physical fitness.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healthy Living.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
HEALTH & FITNESS > General.
Condition physique.
Attitudes à l'egard de la sante.
Hygienistes (Mouvement) > États-Unis > Histoire.
Condition physique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Attitudes à l'egard de la sante > États-Unis > Histoire.
Physical Fitness
Health Promotion > history
Attitude to Health
Physical fitness > United States > History.
USA.
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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