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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ruth Clifford Engs |
| ISBN: | 0275959945 9780275959944 |
| OCLC Number: | 42027512 |
| Description: | xiv, 312 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1. The first Clean Living Movement, 1830-1860. Millenialism, new religions, and health reform -- Temperance, tobacco, and women's rights -- Christian physiology, diet, and sexuality -- Inherited realities, phrenology, and groups with quasi-eugenic undercurrents -- Nativism, cholera, public health, and cures -- pt. 2. The second Clean Living Movement, 1880-1920. Religious zeal, physical culture, and diet -- Saloons, suffrage, and smoking -- Eugenics, purity, and birth control -- Pure food and drugs and the elimination of "dope" -- Tuberculosis, public health, and influenza -- pt. 3. The third Clean Living Movement, 1970-2005. Religious awakening, New Age religions, and wellness -- Drunk driving, smoke-free environments, and the "war against drugs" -- Women's lib, neo-purity, and AIDS -- Fitness, health, and the new eugenics. |
| Responsibility: | Ruth Clifford Engs. |
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