Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American
religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its
heyday, the "San" was a combination spa and Mayo Clinic. Founded in
1866 under the auspices of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and
presided over by the charismatic Dr. Kellogg, it catered to many
well-heeled health seekers including Henry Ford, John D.
Rockefeller, and Presidents Taft and Harding. It also supported a
hospital, research facilities, a medical school, a nursing school,
several health food companies, and a publishing house dedicated to
producing materials on health and wellness. Rather than focusing on
Kellogg as the eccentric creator of corn flakes or a megalomaniacal
quack, Brian C. Wilson takes his role as a physician and a
theological innovator seriously and places his religion of
"Biologic Living" in an on-going tradition of sacred health and
wellness. With the fascinating and unlikely story of the "San" as a
backdrop, Wilson traces the development of this theology of
physiology from its roots in antebellum health reform and
Seventh-day Adventism to its ultimate accommodation of genetics and
eugenics in the Progressive Era.
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