The cult of health and beauty in Germany : a social history, 1890-1930 / Michael Hau.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2003], ©2003.

x, 286 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-271) and index.

Life reform as bürgerliche kultur -- Popular hygienic culture, class, and aesthetic norms -- Gender and aesthetic norms in popular hygienic culture -- Racial aesthetics -- Models of holistic constitutionalism in regular medicine and natural therapy -- The constitutional convergence: life reform, the "crisis of medicine," and Weimar hygiene exhibitions -- Constitutional typologies: Weimar racial science and medicine -- Weimar leisure culture: freikörperkultur and the quest for authenticity and Volksgemeinschaft.