Clean living movements : American cycles of health reform / Ruth Clifford Engs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engs, Ruth Clifford.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health promotion--United States--History.

Health promotion.

Health reformers--United States--History.

Health reformers.

Health behavior--United States--History.

Health behavior.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 312 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Summary:

Describes the interweaving of health movements with other social movements such as women's rights, temperance, eugenics, and religious awakenings in all three reform eras.

Contents:

Part I The First Clean Living Movement, 1830-1860 21

2 Millennialism, New Religions, and Health Reform 23

3 Temperance, Tobacco, and Women's Rights 35

4 Christian Physiology, Diet, and Sexuality 53

5 Inherited Realities, Phrenology, and Groups with Quasi-Eugenic Undercurrents 67

6 Nativism, Cholera, Public Health, and Cures 83

Part II The Second Clean Living Movement, 1880-1920 101

7 Religious Zeal, Physical Culture, and Diet 103

8 Saloons, Suffrage, and Smoking 119

9 Eugenics, Purity, and Birth Control 137

10 Pure Food and Drugs and the Elimination of "Dope" 151

11 Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Influenza 165

Part III The Third Clean Living Movement, 1970-2005 179

12 Religious Awakening, New Age Religions, and Wellness 183

13 Drunk Driving, Smoke-Free Environments, and the "War against Drugs" 201

14 Women's Lib, Neo-Purity, and AIDS 225

15 Fitness, Health, and the New Eugenics 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-303) and index.

ISBN:

0275959945

OCLC:

42027512