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Vegetarische Ernährung, alternativmedizinische Verfahren und ein ausgeprägter Fitnesskult boomen. Mit ihrem Appell, dass sich jede und jeder selbst optimieren solle und möglichst gesund und natürlich leben müsse, nahm die um 1900 entstandene Lebensreform viele dieser Diskurse und Praktiken vorweg. In den 1970er Jahren verbreiteten sich lebensreformerische Ideen und das Ziel einer umfassenden Gesellschaftsreform zunehmend im Alternativmilieu. Eva Locher beschreibt erstmals die Entwicklung der Lebensreform in der Schweiz nach 1945 aus transnationaler Perspektive. Im Zentrum ihrer kultur- und sozialgeschichtlich ausgerichteten Studie stehen Ernährungsreform, Naturheilkunde und Freikörperkultur. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition --- Health --- Personal health --- Wellness --- Medicine --- Physiology --- Diseases --- Holistic medicine --- Hygiene --- Well-being --- Lebensreform --- Alternatives Milieu

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With soap, water, and diligence discusses attitudes and practices around cleanliness and health at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At this time, scientific findings on how diseases spread had rendered both the body and the home as particularly risky in terms of the health of an individual. However, the zeal for cleaning was more than just a health issue – it also contributed to societal change at large. This book aims at deepening our understanding of cleanliness in relation to social class, gender, work, consumption, and space, viewed from a Nordic perspective. The battle against dirt was fought on a broad front, and on different levels of society. The book at hands offers glimpses of the long and complex societal process which was required for the Nordic societies to grow cleaner over time. Behind the gradually increasing interest in soap and lather lay challenges, negotiations, and disagreements about the ways in which cleanliness should be advanced, and who would be the ones advancing it. To establish the supremacy of soap required a lot of hard work. The ten chapters shed light on the interaction between debaters, voluntary associations, institutions, and individuals. How was cleanliness promoted and what was the reception like? Who and what was to be cleaned, and on which terms? What did cleanliness mean in different contexts and for different individuals? The book makes both ideals and practices visible by exploring the ways in which the gospel of cleanliness was presented, propagated, understood, questioned and renewed, and also by showing that in some cases people’s quest for cleanliness had motivations other than those intended by the promoters. The chapters have been written by economic historians, ethnologists, social historians, and historians of ideas from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The book is intended for students, scholars and the general reading audience interested in a social historical perspective on cleanliness.

Health promotion. --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education --- Labour --- Gender --- Nordic countries --- Late 19th century --- Health --- Cleanliness

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As countless alterations have taken place in medicine in the twenty-first century, so too have literary artists addressed new understanding of disease and pathology. Dis/ability studies, fat studies, mad studies, end-of-life studies, and critical race studies among other fields have sought to better understand what social factors lead to pathologizing certain conditions while other variations remain 'normalized.' This collection of essays is open to all critical engagements with narratives of health in order to facilitate the messiness of cross-disciplinary collaboration and interdisciplinarity. As scientific advances provide insight into a wide range of well-being issues and help extend life, it is vital that we come to question the very categories of healthy and unhealthy. This collection brings together analyses of cultural productions which probe those categorizations and suggest new psychological and philosophical understandings which will help better apply and guide the knowledge being rapidly developed within the life sciences. The contributors share an interest in addressing who controls answers to the questions of 'how do we define a healthy body and a healthy life?' and 'what are the political forces that influence our definitions of health?'

The globalization of healthcare protocols has brought many advances but also challenges to traditional understanding of health within many cultures. This collection includes papers that examine narratives of health from all countries, cultures, and communities and is not limited to a North American or Western locus. Further, just as Edward Said problematized 'travelling theory' this book hopes to bring together scholars who look at how literary works also show that medical interventions from a Western perspective need to be challenged when applied to communities whose voices are often not heard or deliberately undermined when those 'treatments' are developed.

Health in literature. --- Health --- Political aspects. --- Health in art. --- Narrative art --- Health aspects. --- Art, Narrative --- Narrative art (Visual arts) --- Art genres --- Personal health --- Wellness --- Medicine --- Physiology --- Diseases --- Holistic medicine --- Hygiene --- Well-being

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This book explores the latest research and practical data on the clinical management of influenza. Starting with the definition, epidemiology and pathogenesis, the first part reviews the basic science of the influenza virus and infection. The next three parts then discusses the diagnosis, complications and management, providing practical data and insights that are useful in day-to-day patient care. The last part focuses on the trending topics, including a new drug, oral baloxavir marboxil, which was introduced in Japan in 2018 and is the first polymerase inhibitor to be licensed for the treatment of uncomplicated influenza. In Japan, since the medical insurance system is well-established, patients receive medical examinations quickly after the onset of influenza viral infection, making it easy to implement early diagnostic tools and early treatment. Providing practical data and insights, Influenza - Advances in Diagnosis and Management is a useful resource for clinicians, residents and trainees around the globe.

Infectious diseases. --- Respiratory organs—Diseases. --- Immunology. --- Vaccines. --- Health promotion. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Pneumology/Respiratory System. --- Vaccine. --- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education --- Biologicals --- Immunobiology --- Life sciences --- Serology --- Influenza. --- Influenza --- Diagnosis. --- Treatment. --- Flu --- Flu, Respiratory --- Grippe --- Respiratory flu --- Respiratory infections --- Virus diseases

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This second edition provides an updated review on the current guidelines and practice standards for the clinical management of cardiovascular risk factors and prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Endorsed by the American Society for Preventive Cardiology, this practical textbook includes concise descriptions of major and newer risk factors, biomarkers, and best practices in the management and prevention of cardiovascular disease. The manual contains chapters on the epidemiology and risk factors for a variety of cardiovascular diseases including dyslipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, inflammation, and ischemic stroke. It examines behavioral factors, psychosocial stress, family history, nutrition, physical activity, smoking, alcohol use, and other sociocultural factors. In addition, the book discusses new imaging strategies in detection of cardiovascular disease, prevention of heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and peripheral arterial disease, and prevention for special populations. Throughout the manual, recommendations are based on guidelines endorsed by the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and other major societies. The second edition of the ASPC Manual of Preventive Cardiology is an essential resource for physicians, medical students, residents, fellows, nurses, and other healthcare professionals and researchers in cardiology, primary care, health promotion and disease prevention, exercise physiology, and pharmacotherapy. .

Cardiology. --- Health promotion. --- Primary care (Medicine). --- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. --- Primary Care Medicine. --- Primary medical care --- Medical care --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education --- Heart --- Internal medicine --- Diseases --- Primary care (Medicine)