Title The cult of health and beauty in Germany : a social history, 1890-1930 / Michael Hau

Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2003

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Description x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Ch. 1. Life Reform as Burgerliche Kultur -- Ch. 2. Popular Hygienic Culture, Class, and Aesthetic Norms -- Ch. 3. Gender and Aesthetic Norms in Popular Hygienic Culture -- Ch. 4. Racial Aesthetics -- Ch. 5. Models of Holistic Constitutionalism in Regular Medicine and Natural Therapy -- Ch. 6. The Constitutional Convergence: Life Reform, the "Crisis of Medicine," and Weimar Hygiene Exhibitions -- Ch. 7. Constitutional Typologies: Weimar Racial Science and Medicine -- Ch. 8. Weimar Leisure Culture: Freikorperkultur and the Quest for Authenticity and Volksgemeinschaft Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Health behavior -- Germany -- History. Human body -- Social aspects -- Germany. Health attitudes -- Germany -- History. Social medicine -- Germany. Hygiene -- Germany -- History. SUBJECT Germany -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054659 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 LC no. 2002014839 ISBN 0226319741 cloth alkaline paper 0226319768 paperback alkaline paper

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