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The cult of health and beauty in Germany :

Hau, Michael.

The cult of health and beauty in Germany : a social history, 1890-1930 Michael Hau. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2003. - x, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-271) and index.

Life reform as bürgerliche kultur -- Popular hygienic culture, class, and aesthetic norms -- Gender and aesthetic norms in popular hygienic culture -- Racial aesthetics -- Models of holistic constitutionalism in regular medicine and natural therapy -- The constitutional convergence: life reform, the "crisis of medicine," and Weimar hygiene exhibitions -- Constitutional typologies: Weimar racial science and medicine -- Weimar leisure culture: freikörperkultur and the quest for authenticity and Volksgemeinschaft.

0226319741 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226319768 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2002014839


Social medicine--Germany.
Hygiene--History.--Germany


Germany--Social life and customs.

RA 418.3 .G3 / H3 2003
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