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      ISBN: 0691614237

      ISBN13: 9780691614236

      Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers

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      Book Overview

      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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      AN INTERESTING AND VALUABLE HISTORY OF ALTERNATIVE HEALING IN AMERICA

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      James Whorton is (was?) a professor of Biomedical History at the University of Washington. This 1982 Princeton University Press book provides a history (primarily focused on the period of 1830-1920) of the earliest health reform movements in this country. Unlike many similar histories, the book places these health movements to their broader social context (e.g., the Jacksonian and Progressivism reform movements). Whorton...

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