Inner Hygiene : Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195135814
ISBN-13
9780195135817
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 20th, 2000
Print length
344 Pages
Weight
653 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.60 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
History of ideasPublic health & preventive medicineHistory of medicineDiseases & disorders
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Explores the history of Western society's concern for constipation as a serious threat to health, and examines the extraordinary variety of preventive and curative measures that have been developed to save people from it.
Inner Hygiene explores the serious health threat of constipation, and discusses the extraordinary variety of preventive and curative measures that have been developed to save people from the 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 an unnatural lifestyle of urban, industrial society. Particular attention is given to the many constipation therapies that people have used, including laxatives, enemas, mineral waters, bran cereals, yogurts, electrotherapy, calisthenics, rectal dilation devices, and many other remedies. The story is carried up to the present and demonstrates that many of constipation therapies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are continuing into the twenty-first.
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