INNER HYGIENE IN MODERN HEALTH CULTURE

现代健康文化中的内在卫生

• 批准号: 3374236
• 负责人: JAMES C WHORTON
• 金额: $ 3.22万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-05-01 至 1992-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3374236
• 关键词: American; British Isles; belief; constipation; excretion; folk medicine; gastrointestinal function; health

Studies of the history of personal hygiene and health behavior have generally neglected one of the areas of greatest concern to both health professionals and lay people, from antiquity to the present, that of intestinal purity. Anxiety over bowel health has spawned a remarkable number and variety of theories and practices among orthodox medical workers, alternative healers, physical educators, health journalists, food and exercise faddists, purveyors of quack drugs and devices, and manufacturers of health foods and equipment. Analysis of the evolution of professional and popular attitudes and behavior will thus not only enlarge historians' understanding of the development of hygiene, but also clarify the structure and functioning of health culture in England and America. In addition, the evolution of inner hygiene is the ideal vehicle for tracing the rise of the concept of diseases of civilization from the late eighteenth century to current theories relating dietary fiber to "Western diseases." The project will be accomplished through the extensive examination of documents both published (books, journals, magazines, pamphlets, advertisements) and unpublished (memoirs, correspondence, government files) in the United States and England.

对个人卫生史和健康行为的研究 人们普遍忽视了一个最关心的领域， 专业人士和外行人，从古代到现在， 肠道的纯净度对肠道健康的焦虑引发了一场引人注目的 正统医学理论和实践的数量和种类 工作者、非传统治疗师、体育教育工作者、卫生记者、食品 和运动时尚，庸医药物和设备的供应商， 保健食品和设备制造商。的演变分析 因此，专业和大众的态度和行为不仅会扩大 历史学家对卫生学发展的认识，也澄清了 英国和美国健康文化的结构和功能。在 此外，内部卫生的演变是追踪的理想工具， 文明病概念的兴起， 从世纪到目前有关膳食纤维的理论， 疾病“该项目将通过广泛的 审查出版的文件（书籍，期刊，杂志， 小册子，广告）和未出版的（回忆录，通信， 政府文件）在美国和英国。