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Clean living movements : American cycles of health reform

Author: Ruth Clifford Engs
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
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Document Type: Book
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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