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Crusaders for Fitness

The History of American Health Reformers

By: James C. Whorton

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Crusaders for Fitness

The History of American Health Reformers

By: James C. Whorton

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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.

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1400857465

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Before Silent Spring

Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America

By: James C. Whorton

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Before Silent Spring

Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America

By: James C. Whorton

Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. The book examines the period before the publication of Rachel Carson's famous Silent Spring, tracing the origins of the residue problem and exploring the complicated network of interest groups that formed around the issue. The author shows how economic necessities, technological limitations, and pressures on regulatory agencies have brought us to "our present dilemma of seemingly having to poison our food in order to protect it." In Part I, the agricultural and medical literature of the past century is used to analyze the emergence by 1920 of a public health danger of serious proportions. Part II draws heavily on the unpublished records of the Food and Drug Administration to document how the ineffective handling of this danger established precedents for present pesticide abuses. Originally published in 1975. 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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.

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1400871808

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Inner Hygiene

Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society

By: James C. Whorton

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Inner Hygiene

Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society

By: James C. Whorton

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.

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0195135814

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Nature Cures

The History of Alternative Medicine in America

By: James C. Whorton

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Nature Cures

The History of Alternative Medicine in America

By: James C. Whorton

Writing with wit and with fairness to all sides, Whorton offers a fascinating look at alternative health systems, highlighting their history, theories, successes and failures. His book is an engaging and authoritative history that highlights the course of alternative medicine in the U.S., providing valuable background to the wide range of therapies available today.

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0195171624

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The Arsenic Century

How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

By: James C. Whorton

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The Arsenic Century

How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

By: James C. Whorton

Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies to curtains, wallpaper, and clothing (it was arsenic in old lace that was the danger). Whether at home amidst arsenical curtains and wallpapers, at work manufacturing these products, or at play swirling about the papered, curtained ballroom in arsenical gowns and gloves, no one was beyond the poison's reach. Drawing on the medical, legal, and popular literature of the time, The Arsenic Century paints a vivid picture of its wide-ranging and insidious presence in Victorian daily life, weaving together the history of its emergence as a nearly inescapable household hazard with the sordid story of its frequent employment as a tool of murder and suicide. And ultimately, as the final chapter suggests, arsenic in Victorian Britain was very much the pilot episode for a series of environmental poisoning dramas that grew ever more common during the twentieth century and still has no end in sight.

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OUP Oxford

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0191623431

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Licensed to Practice

The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession

By: James C. Mohr

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Licensed to Practice

The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession

By: James C. Mohr

How did American doctors come to be licensed on the terms we now take for granted? Licensed to Practice begins with an 1891 shooting in Wheeling, West Virginia, that left one doctor dead and another on trial for his life. Formerly close friends, the doctors had fallen out over the issue of medical licensing. Historian James C. Mohr calls the murder “a sorry personal consequence of the far larger and historically significant battle among West Virginia’s physicians over the future of their profession.” Through most of the nineteenth century, anyone could call themselves a doctor and could practice medicine on whatever basis they wished. But an 1889 U.S. Supreme Court case, Dent v. West Virginia, effectively transformed medical practice from an unregulated occupation to a legally recognized profession. The political and legal battles that led up to the decision were unusually bitter—especially among physicians themselves—and the outcome was far from a foregone conclusion. So-called Regular physicians wanted to impose their own standards on the wide-open medical marketplace in which they and such non-Regulars as Thomsonians, Botanics, Hydropaths, Homeopaths, and Eclectics competed. The Regulars achieved their goal by persuading the state legislature to make it a crime for anyone to practice without a license from the Board of Health, which they controlled. When the high court approved that arrangement—despite constitutional challenges—the licensing precedents established in West Virginia became the bedrock on which the modern American medical structure was built. And those precedents would have profound implications. Thus does Dent, a little-known Supreme Court case, influence how Americans receive health care more than a hundred years after the fact.

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JHU Press

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1421411423

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Pure Food

Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906

By: James Harvey Young

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Pure Food

Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906

By: James Harvey Young

Pure food" became the rallying cry among a divergent group of campaigners who lobbied Congress for a law regulating foods and drugs. James Harvey Young reveals the complex and pluralistic nature not only of that crusade but also of the broader Progressive movement of which it was a significant strand. In the vivid style familiar to readers of his earlier works, The Toadstool Millionaires and The Medical Messiahs, Young sets the pure food movement in the context of changing technology and medical theory and describes pioneering laws to control imported drugs and domestic oleomargarine. He explains controversy within the pure food coalition, showing how farming and business groups sought competitive commercial advantage, while consumer advocates wished to promote commercial integrity and advance public health. The author focuses on how the public became increasingly fearful of hazards in adulterated foods and narcotic nostrums and how Congress finally achieved the compromises necessary to pass the Food and Drugs Act and the meat inspection law of 1906. Originally published in 1989. 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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.

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1400860326

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Rising Life Expectancy

A Global History

By: James C. Riley

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Rising Life Expectancy

A Global History

By: James C. Riley

This book traces the global history of rising life expectancy in the last 200 years.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521002818

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Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health

A History of Twelve Countries

By: James C. Riley

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Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health

A History of Twelve Countries

By: James C. Riley

This book studies the experience of twelve countries that have broken through the limits that low incomes so often impose on human survival: China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Oman, Panama, the former Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela. Most made impressive gains in life expectancy in the decades after 1920, and by 1960 nearly matched the rich countries in survival. James C. Riley finds that all of these countries enjoyed significant social growth, all invested in public health, and all gained the people's participation in the effort to improve their own lives and health. This innovative analysis suggests an alternative model of growth in which the measure of a nation's success is not its per capita income but the life expectancy of its population.

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Univ of California Press

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0520934148

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The Arsenic Century

How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

By: James C. Whorton

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How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

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Inclusive Schools in Action

Making Differences Ordinary

By: James McLeskey,Nancy L. Waldron

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Inclusive Schools in Action

Making Differences Ordinary

By: James McLeskey,Nancy L. Waldron

For any school undertaking an inclusion program, here's an opportunity to find out what works and explore a 10-step plan that can achieve positive academic and social outcomes for all students -- with and without disabilities.

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ASCD

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0871203898

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Social Issues in America

An Encyclopedia

By: James Ciment

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Social Issues in America

An Encyclopedia

By: James Ciment

A reference for those researching the historical and contemporary details of more than 170 issues confronting American society. The entries in this book cover several social issues - including economic, scientific, environmental, criminal, legal, security, health, and media topics.

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0765680610

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Nature Cures

The History of Alternative Medicine in America

By: James C. Whorton

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The History of Alternative Medicine in America

By: James C. Whorton

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Crusaders for Fitness

The History of American Health Reformers

By: James C. Whorton

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Crusaders for Fitness

The History of American Health Reformers

By: James C. Whorton

Details the efforts of reform movements from 1830 to 1920 to change the hygiene habits and medical practices of the United States and analyzes the reformers' views of health

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069100594X

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The Vision of James

By: William James,Stephen C. Rowe

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The Vision of James

By: William James,Stephen C. Rowe

This introduction to the life of William James shows how his work in psychology and philosophy has contributed to our understanding of the world, and is part of a series which highlights the ideas of thinkers such as Kant and Nietzsche. The first part of the work consists of two introductory pieces. The remainder consists of excerpts from James's major writings, which include On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings and The Gospel of Relaxation.

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Element Books Limited

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1852308958

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The Familiar Letters of James Howell

By: James Howell

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The Familiar Letters of James Howell

By: James Howell

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Franklin Classics Trade Press

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0353242802

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Liber Memorialis

Professor James C. Brady

By: Oonagh Breen,James P. Casey

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Liber Memorialis

Professor James C. Brady

By: Oonagh Breen,James P. Casey

In the course of an academic career spanning more than 30 years, the late James C. Brady, Professor of Equity and Property Law at University College Dublin, was a seminal figure for generations of law students and practitioners alike. This collection of his essays, to honour his memory, is written by a team of distinguished scholars and practitioners - friends, contemporaries and colleagues. Covering areas such as land law, succession and trust law to the development of law and equity, contributions reflect the diverse areas of law that were close to his heart and mind.

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