The progressive era's health reform movement [[electronic resource] ] : a historical dictionary / / Ruth Clifford Engs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452053803321
• Autore: Engs Ruth Clifford
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, CT, : Praeger, c2003
• ISBN: 1-282-40825-9; 9786612408250; 0-313-05185-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (444 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1/0973/03
• Soggetti: Health care reform - United States - History - 19th century; Health care reform - United States - History - 20th century; Progressivism (United States politics) - History - 19th century; Progressivism (United States politics) - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: "Selected chronology": p. [371]-407.; Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; The Dictionary; Selected Chronology; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Religious, political, social, and health reform earmarked the Progressive Era. The era's health reform movement-like today's clean living movement-saw campaigns against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and sexuality. It included crusades for exercise, vegetarian diets, and alternative health care and concerns about eugenics and new diseases. Covering the years leading up to the Progressive Era through the 1920s, this book provides entries on the central figures, events, crusades, legislation, publications and terms of the health reform movements, while a detailed timeline ties health reform to politic