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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Engs, Ruth C. Clean living movements. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2001 (DLC) 99043111 (OCoLC)48845669 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ruth C Engs |
| ISBN: | 9780313389900 031338990X |
| OCLC Number: | 642690043 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 312 p.) |
| Contents: | 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
Abstract:
Over the past 200 years, a health reform movement has emerged about every 80 years. These clean living cycles surged with, or were tangential to, a religious awakening. Simultaneously with these awakenings, out groups such as immigrants and/or youth were seen to exhibit behaviors that undermined society. Middle class fear of these dangerous classes and a desire to eliminate disease, crime, and other perceived health or social problems led to crusades in each of the three reform eras against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, certain foods, and sexual behaviors. A backlash began to emerge from some segme.
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