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The cult of health and beauty in Germany : a social history, 1890-1930 / Michael Hau.
Van Pelt Library RA418.3.G3 H375 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hau, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine--Germany.
- Social medicine.
- Manners and customs.
- History.
- Germany.
- Hygiene--Germany--History.
- Hygiene.
- Germany--Social life and customs--History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 Life Reform as Burgerliche Kultur 2 Popular Hygienic Culture, Class, and Aesthetic Norms3 Gender and Aesthetic Norms in Popular Hygienic Culture4 Racial Aesthetics5 Models of Holistic Constitutionalism in Regular Medicine and Natural Therapy6 The Constitutional Convergence: Life Reform, the "Crisis of Medicine," and Weimar Hygiene Exhibitions 7 Constitutional Typologies: Weimar Racial Science and Medicine8 Weimar Leisure Culture: Freikorperkultur and the Quest for Authenticity and VolksgemeinschaftConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
- Contents:
- The life reform as bürgerliche kultur
- Popular hygienic culture, class, and aesthetic norms
- Gender and aesthetic norms in popular hygienic culture
- Racial aesthetics
- Models of holistic constitutionalism in regular medicine and natural therapy
- The constitutional convergence: life reform, the "crisis of medicine," and Weimar hygiene exhibitions
- Constitutional typologies: Weimar racial science and medicine
- Weimar leisure culture: freik"rperkultur and the quest for authenticity and Volksgemeinschaft
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226319741
- 0226319768
- OCLC:
- 50630494
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