Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester Graham and Health Reform (Contributions in Medical Studies)

ISBN: 0313214158

Author: Nissenbaum, Stephen

Condition: New

While the focus of this book is on one man, Sylvester Graham, Its purpose is somewhat broader. Graham was the first writer to formulate a coherent physiological analysis of the various new anxieties about the human body that emerged in the 1830s, and to propose a systematic regimen he believed would assuage them Coming out of both the evangelical ministry and the temperance movement of the late 1820s, he had a direct and significance impact on the development of movements such as vegetarianism, phrenology, and water-cure, in addition to sexual reform. 1. Sylvester Graham and the physiology of Subsistence, 2. The New Chastity of the 1830s. 3. Vegetarianism, 4. Physiology, 5. Temperance, 6. An Epidemic on Debility, 7. Sex, The Pathology of Desire, 8. The Science of Human Life, 9. The Graham System of Work, 10. Radicalism of the Graham System.