Item Detail
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9746
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9
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24
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English
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A Peculiar People : The Physiological Aspects of Mormonism, 1850-1975
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 1979
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12
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61-83
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Variations on the theme of a peculiarly Mormon physiology circulated in medical journals, popular magazines, and government reports during 1860-75. Inferences about the detrimental effect of polygamy on health and physical features, with obvious implications for morality, attracted public attention when Dr. Roberts Bartholow's observations were published as the Surgeon General's Statistical Report. The last known medical report of racial degeneration among Mormons in Utah was Surgeon E.P. Vollum's, also published by the government. Certainly the Mormons' religious resistance to the medical profession did some physical harm. In the 20th century, however, their death rate is below the national average.
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Contesting the LDS Image : The North American Review and the Mormons, 1881-1907
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Exceptionally Queer : Mormon Peculiarity and US Exceptionalism
Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
Exhibiting Theology : James E. Talmage and Mormon Public Relations, 1915-20
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
Mormon Polygamy : A Bibliography, 1977-92
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism -
After Polygamy Was Made a Sin : The Social History of Christian Polygamy
A Journey to Great Salt Lake City, with a Sketch of the History, Religion, and Customs of the Mormons, and an Introduction on The Religious Movement in the United States
An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah
Artemus Ward among the Mormons
A Servant of Servants . . . Cursed as Pertaining to the Priesthood : Mormon Attitudes Toward Slavery and the Black Man, 1830-1880
A Visit to Salt Lake : Being a Journey Across the Plains and a Residence in the Mormon Settlement at Utah.
Desert Saints : The Mormon Frontier in Utah
History of Utah 1540-1886
Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West
Intolerable Zion : The Image of Mormonism in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons
Life in Utah; or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism
Mormonism : Its Leaders and Designs
Mormon Polygamy : A Review Article
New America
The Awesome Power of Sex : The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
The Offspring of the Mormon People
The Physiological Aspects of Mormonism, and the Climatology, and Diseases of Utah and New Mexico
The Sex-Determinant in Mormon Theology
Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey Through Utah to Arizona
Utah and the Mormons : The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs, and Prospects of the Latter-day Saints