Inner Hygiene - Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2000
First published:	April 2000
Authors:	James C Whorton (Professor, Department of Medical History and Ethics)
Dimensions:	241 x 164 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	338
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-513581-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > General
LSN:	0-19-513581-4
Barcode:	9780195135817

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