Covering a time period spanning from 1880 through the 1920s, this dictionary brings together entries of the major health reform issues and related topics during the Progressive era of the United State
This three-volume set provides a comprehensive yet concise global exploration of health and medicine from ancient times to the present day, helping readers to trace the development of concepts and pra
Over the past 200 years, a health reform movement has emerged about every 80 years. These "clean living" cycles surged with, or were tangential to, a religious awakening. Simultaneously with these awa
Provides an A-to-Z overview of eugenics--the science of "improving" humans through heredity--one of the most controversial scientific and cultural movements of the last century.
Best known for his muckraking expose of the squalor and brutality that pervaded the livestock industry in his book The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's political activism was not limited to issues of workers
