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Inner hygiene : constipation and the pursuit of health in modern society / James C. Whorton.
- Title
- Inner hygiene : constipation and the pursuit of health in modern society / James C. Whorton.
- Author
- Whorton, James C., 1942-
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 315 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Inner Hygiene explores the history of western society's concern for constipation as a serious threat to health, and discusses the extraordinary variety of preventive and curative measures that have been developed to save people from the presumed toxic effects of intestinal irregularity. The book examines the evolution over the last two centuries of the belief that constipation is a disease brought on by the unnatural lifestyle of urban, industrial society.
- This book will have strong appeal to historians of medicine, American and European historians with an interest in health and popular culture, physicians and other health professionals, and laypersons concerned about diet and health."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 0195135814 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99016812
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries