| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine. By Heather Munro Prescott. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. xiv, 234 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-472-11608-9.)
Most people at U.S. institutions of higher learning are familiar with student health services, usually seen as necessary but relatively unproblematic campus institutions, rarely as worthy of serious historical attention. That perception would be wrong, as this well- written volume shows. Based in part on archival research at institutions including both Ivy League and historically black universities, Student Bodies examines relationships between student health services and cultural and medical history.	1
Student health services originated with nineteenth-century concerns about the deleterious effects of higher education on female bodies, including fears that the lack of reproductive zeal of university-trained women would lead to "race suicide." The solution, spearheaded by the nascent health services, was physical education. As it was thought inappropriate for men to care for female students, health services created a new professional niche for women physicians. Exercise was thought to benefit collegiate men, too, by combating carousing, drinking, and masturbation.	. . .

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