Inner Hygiene: Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society

by James C. Whorton

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 regularity. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195135814
• ISBN13: 9780195135817
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"