Ruth Clifford Engs - Böcker

Over the past 200 years, a health reform movement has emerged about every 80 years. These clean living cycles surged with, or were tangential to, a religious awakening. Simultaneously with these awakenings, out groups such as immigrants and/or you...

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Over the past 200 years, a health reform movement has emerged about every 80 years. These clean living cycles surged with, or were tangential to, a religious awakening. Simultaneously with these awakenings, out groups such as immigrants and/or you...

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Religious, political, social, and health reform earmarked the Progressive Era. The era's health reform movement-like today's clean living movement-saw campaigns against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and sexuality. It included crusades for exercise, veg...

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Religious, political, social, and health reform earmarked the Progressive Era. The era's health reform movementlike today's clean living movementsaw campaigns against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and sexuality. It included crusades for exercise, veget...

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Eugenics-the theory that we can improve future generations of humans through selective breeding-was one of the most controversial movements of the early 20th century. Often tied to racist beliefs and nativist desires to limit immigration, the euge...

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Over the past 200 years, a health reform movement has emerged about every 80 years. These clean living cycles surged with, or were tangential to, a religious awakening. Simultaneously with these awakenings, out groups such as immigrants and/or you...

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Best known for his muckraking expose of the pervasive conditions of squalor and brutality that accompanied the livestock industry in his book ""The Jungle"", Upton Sinclair's political activism was not limited to issues of work...

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Conversations in the Abbey profiles elder monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in southern Indiana. Eleven monks talk about their lives, prayer and work, and how they've changed over the decades. Other chapters tell of the abbey's work over the years.

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A collection of 11 oral history biographies that includes the personal reflections of Benedictine monks who lived through much of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. The monks in this second volume were born between 1930 and...

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This three-volume set provides a comprehensive yet concise global exploration of health and medicine from ancient times to the present day, helping readers to trace the development of concepts and practices around the world. From archaeological ev...

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From archaeological evidence of trepanning during prehistoric times to medieval Europe's conception of the four humors to present-day epidemics of diabetes and heart disease, health concerns and medical practices have changed considerably througho...

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This encyclopedia explores historical and contemporary fringe remedies seen as strange, ridiculous, or even gruesome by modern Western medicine but which nevertheless played an important role in the history of medicine. From placing leeches on the...

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From placing leeches on the neck to treat a cough to using crocodile dung to prevent pregnancy, a number of medical treatments that now seem unusual were once commonplace. While a few of these remedies may have been effective, most were either use...

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Lt. Col. MacMillan, physician and commanding officer of the 96th Field Hospital in the almost forgotten China-India-Burma theater of World War II, provides vivid impressions and observations in his diary. The unit slogs over the treacherous Ledo-B...

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