We Lived for the Body : : Natural Medicine and Public Health in Imperial Germany / / Avi Sharma.
Nature was central to the Wilhelmine German experience. Medical cosmologies and reform-initiatives were a key to consumer practices and lifestyle choices. Nature's appeal transcended class, confession, and political party. Millions of Germans recognized that nature had healing effects and was i...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: Progress Reconsidered: Natural Healing and Germany's Long Nineteenth Century
- 1. CREATING NATURE'S REPUBLIC: From Natural Therapies to Self-Help in Germany, 1800-1870
- 2. WILHELMINE NATURE: Natural Lifestyle and Practical Politics in the German Life- Reform Movement, 1890-1914
- 3. CONTESTING THE MEDICAL MARKETPLACE: Politics, Publicity, and Scientific Progress, 1869-1910
- 4. SCIENCE FROM THE MARGINS? Naturheilkunde from Outsider Medicine to the University of Berlin, 1889-1920
- 5. ANTI-VACCINE AGITATION, PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS, AND THE STATE IN GERMANY, 1874-1914
- CONCLUSION: Rethinking Medicine and Modernity: Popular Medicine in Practice
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX