Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The kingdom of health -- Chapter One. A fig for the doctors -- Chapter Two. Christian physiology -- Chapter Three. Tempest in a flesh-pot -- Chapter Four. Physical education -- Chapter Five. Hygiene in evolution -- Chapter Six. Physiologic optimism -- Chapter Seven. Muscular vegetarianism -- Chapter Eight. Uric acid and other fetishes -- Chapter Nine. Philosophy in the gymnasium -- Chapter Ten. The hygiene of the wheel -- Chapter Eleven. A modern conspectus -- Index
Summary
To reveal the importance of a subject that has long suffered from scholarly neglect, Professor Whorton demonstrates that health reform campaigns were not mere fads but ideologies composed of a mixture of religious and scientific ideas and themes from the popular culture. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
