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Nature was central to the Wilhelmine German experience. Medical cosmologies and reform-initiatives were a key to consumer practices and lifestyle choices. Natures appeal transcended class, confession, and political party. Millions of Germans recognized that nature had healing effects and was intimately tied to quality of life. In the 1880s and 1890s, this preoccupation with nature became an increasingly important part of German popular culture.

In this pioneering study, Avi Sharma shows that nature, health, and the body became essential ways of talking about real and imagined social and political problems. The practice of popular medicine in the Wilhelmine era brought nature back into urban everyday experience, transforming the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. Sharma explores the history of natural healing in Germany and shows how social and medical practices that now seem foreign to contemporary eyes were, just decades ago, familiar to everyone from small children to their aged grandparents, from tradesmen and women to research scientists. Natural healing was not simply a way to cure illness. It was also seen as a way to build a more healthful society. Using interpretive methods drawn from the history of science and science studies, Sharma provides a readable and groundbreaking inquiry into how popular health and hygiene movements shaped German ideas about progress, modernity, nature, health, and the body at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

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2014 by Northern Illinois University Press
Published by Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, Illinois 60115
Manufactured in the United States using acid-free paper.
All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sharma, Avinash, author.
We lived for the body : natural medicine and public health in imperial Germany / Avi Sharma.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-87580-704-1 (pbk.) ISBN 978-1-60909-154-5 (e-book)
1. NaturopathyGermanyHistory. 2. Public healthGermanyHistory. I. Title.
RZ440.S468 2014 615.5350943dc23
2014002289
Contents
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Progress Reconsidered: Natural Healing and Germanys Long Nineteenth Century
Creating Natures Republic :
From Natural Therapies to Self-Help in Germany, 18001870
Wilhelmine Nature :
Natural Lifestyle and Practical Politics in the German Life- Re form Movement, 18901914
Contesting the Medical Marketplace:
Politics, Publicity, and Scientific Progress, 18691910
Science from the Margins ?
Naturheilkunde from Outsider Medicine to the University of Ber lin, 18891920
Anti-Vaccine Agitation, Parliamentary Politics, and thE State in Germany , 18741914
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Rethinking Medicine and Modernity: Popular Medicine in Practice
I always expected the acknowledgments would be the easiest part of the book to write, but there are so many people who deserve my thanks for their help over the years. Michael Geyer, Leora Auslander, and Jan Goldstein all shaped the project in different ways and helped me to think through some difficult problems. Dan Koehler, Ari Joskowicz, Josh Arthurs, Joachim Haeberlen, Sean Forner, Ronen Steinberg, and Matt Calhoun were also there when this project began, and I am happy to say that I still get to see them here in Chicago, in Berlin, or elsewhere. We have had some pretty lively talks over the years, and I look forward to more conversations about German history and other important things.
While teaching at the University of Chicago, I had the chance to work with some outstanding people. John MacAloon and Chad Cyrenne directed the MAPSS program with both style and substance, and I was always so impressed by the way that they admired the young people they taught. I also had the chance to teach some amazing graduate students, now spread across the country. I expect many of them to make important contributions in their respective fields, but let me just mention a few who made a particular impact on my own thinking. David Chrisinger, Nina Arutyunyan, David Spreen, Claas Kirchhelle, Michaela Appeltova, Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani, Ammar Ali Jan, and Clara Picker really captured my imagination at various points in our time together, and I look forward to reading their work as it comes out in the world.
I spent a fair bit of time doing research in Germany, and that was largely possible because of funding from the Fulbright Commission. Reiner Rohr was always an advocate for the Fellows, and he and his staff have done so much to support academic exchanges. I was a happy beneficiary of this excellent program.
The work would not have possible without the staff at libraries and archives in Germany and the United States. I am astonished at how much history is produced by the people working behind the scenes, and the generosity of people at the Geheimes Staatsarchiv and the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, the Hauptstaatsarchiv in Dresden, and the Re genstein library in Chicago helped me to uncover materials that I am not sure I would have discovered on my own. Conferences organized by the Robert Bosch Institute for the History of Medicine, the Institute for Ethnology, and Institute for European History and Politics (both at Humboldt University), and the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technical University in Berlin all had a similar impact, introducing me to people and ideas that were new and exciting. In this regard, I want to thank Martin Dinges, Robert Jtte, Carsten Timmermann, Bo Sax, Harish Naraindas, Cornelia Regin, Volker Hess, Rainer Herrn, Beate Binder, Eric Engstrom. And then, of course, my special friends and mentors Dorothee Brantz and Thomas Mergel.
To Susan Bean, Amy Farranto, Judith Robey, Nancy Gerth, and Eric Miller, thank you for all the hard work you did putting this book together.
An earlier version of Chapter 2 was published in Social History 37 (2012): 3654. An abbreviated version of Chapter 4 was published as Medicine from the Margins? Naturheilkunde from Medical Heterodoxy to the University of Berlin, 18891921 in Social History of Medicine 24 (2011): 33451. I also want to thank Robert Jtte and Martin Dinges for allowing me to use materials from Rethinking Asymmetries in the Marketplace: Medical Pluralism in Germany, 18691910, in Martin Dinges, ed., Medical Pluralism in Comparative Perspective: India and Germany, 18002000 (Stuttgart: Robert Bosch, 2014). My previous work is used here with permission.
Now for the many friends who have been so wonderful to me over the years. Kevin Royko, Aric Russom, Adam Buchwald, Ben Taylor, Kate Suisman, Genevieve Maull, Allan Lesage, Simen Strand, Lea Schleiffenbaum, Liza Weinstein, Allan Lesage, Matt Dorn, Ralf Bet termann, Imke Wagener, Ben Rubloff, Jenni Lee, Jana Obermuller, Ju lien Rouvroy, Antje Schnoor, Adam Levay, Dana Keiser, Karolina Gnatowski, Dan Gunn, Ben Helphand, Dawn Herrera, and many others have been so important to my experience, and I look forward to our continued conversation.
Most importantly, there is my family to thank. Gerda Neu-Sokol and Stephen Sokol are excellent second parents (I like this better than in-laws), and I love the conversations and arguments we have. Our re lationship also has given me the chance to get to know the whole Neu-Simon clan, which has been a pleasure. My sister, Shalini, my mother Yasha, Berton, Arun, Navtej, Aleesha, Ayesha, Shail, Shashi, Shagun, Harneesh, Sohinee, Avinash, and Shaumya are all so valued by me. My father, Yadu, died just as this project was getting started, and my aunt Vasundhara (Basso) died as the book was just coming to an end. They are really missed by so many of us.
Finally, to my fascinating and lovely wife, Hannah. This would not have been nearly as interesting to me without you and the startling and surprising and funny conversations that we have. So thank you for that. Love you so much.
Progress Reconsidered: Natural Healing
and Germanys Long Nineteenth Century
Nature was central to the Wilhelmine experience. It organized medical cosmologies and reform initiatives; it informed consumer practices and lifestyle choices. Natures appeal transcended class, confession, and political party. Kaiser Wilhelm II was an advocate for the natural lifestyle, as was Karl Liebknecht, who announced the overthrow of Wilhelms regime from the Rote Rathaus in 1918. Thomas Mann and Gerhardt Hauptmann thought that the back-to-nature mantra was evidence of a more or less severe psychological disorder, but Max Weber, who struggled with his own mental-health issues, was more forgiving and spent some time in a back-to-nature commune in Ascona. Millions of Germansworkers and bourgeois, aristocrats and industrialistsrecognized that nature had healing effects and was intimately tied to quality-of-life issues. In the 1880s and 1890s, this preoccupation with nature became an increasingly important part of German popular culture. In organizations like the German League for Natural Lifestyle and Therapy, as well as in bathing, gymnastics, vegetarian, and land-reform groups, Germans from across the social and political spectrum claimed that nature was the key to imagining better futures.
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