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Class in England
, trans. and ed.W. O. Henderson and W. H. Chaloner (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1968), 80; Richard Keith Frazine,
The Barefoot Hiker
(Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1993), 15–16; David Holmstrom, “Hiking Shoes Are Getting the Boot,”
Christian Science Monitor
, June 9, 1997, 15.
    6. Frazine,
Barefoot Hiker
, 31–33; Liz Halloran, “Shoeless in the Forest, Hikers Discover a World of Unexpected Sensations,” reprintedin ibid., 90–91; David Holmstrom, “Hiking Shoes,” 15.
    7. M. Douglas Baker and Randi E. Bell, “The Role of Footwear in Childhood Injuries,”
Pediatric Emergency Care
, vol. 7, no. 6 (December 1991), 353–55. Sneakers and other rough-soled shoes, worn with socks, are the best preparation against loss of footing, according to the study.
    8. Sander Gilman, “The Jewish Foot: A Foot-Note to the JewishBody,” in Sander Gilman,
The Jew’s Body
(New York: Routledge, 1991), 38–59; Patricia Vertinsky, “Body Matters,” in Nobert Finzsch and Dietmar Schirmer, eds.,
Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States
(Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute, 1998), 331–57; Patricia Vertinsky: “The ‘Racial’ Body and the Anatomy of Difference: Anti-Semitism,Physical Culture, and the Jew’s Foot,”
Sport Science Review
, vol. 4, no. 1 (January 1995), 38–59; Lynn T. Staheli, “Shoes for Children: A Review,”
Pediatrics
, vol. 88, no. 2 (August 1991), 371–75; William A. Rossi, “Dr. Scholl: From Humble Beginnings,”
Footwear News
, vol. 54, no. 27 (July 6, 1998), 14; Rossi, “Foot’s Arches,” 14.
    9. David King, “The Way We Were: World War II Presented Baseballwith Its Ultimate Challenge,”
Houston Chronicle
, July 23, 1995; Howard Seiden, “Flat Feet Don’t Automatically Mean Bad Feet,”
Montreal Gazette
, October 17, 1992; Elisabeth Rosenthal, “The Maligned Flat Foot: Some See an Advantage,”
New York Times
, November 22, 1990; David N. Cowan et al., “Foot Morphologic Characteristics and Risk of Exercise-Related Injury,”
Archives of Family Medicine
, vol.2, no. 7 (July 1993), 773–77 (paper originally presented in 1989).
    10. E. E. Bleck, “The Shoeing of Children: Sham or Science?”
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
, vol. 13, no. 2 (April 1971), 188–95; Udaya Bahaskara Rao and Benjamin Joseph, “The Influence of Footwear on the Prevalence of Flat Feet,”
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
, vol. 74-B, no. 4 (July 1992), 525–27; Staheli, “Shoesfor Children,” 371–75.
    11. “White Man’s Burden,”
Economist
, May 7, 1983, 104; Thomas V. DiBacco, “Hookworm’s Strange History: How a Yankee’s Research Saved the South,”
Washington Post
, June 30, 1992; Adrian Gwin, “Looking Back: No Shoes Serves This Barefoot Fan,”
Charleston Daily Mail
, June 7, 1997; Asa C. Chandler,
Hookworm Disease: Its Distribution, Biology, Epidemiology, Pathology, Treatmentand Control
(New York: Macmillan, 1929), 174–75, 208–11, 380–83; John Ettling,
The Germ of Laziness
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981), 130; Mary A. Dempsey, “Henry Ford’s Amazonian Suburbia,”
Américas
(English edition), vol. 48, no. 2 (March—April 1996), 49. Shoes as well as bare feet can transmit lethal infections. A sixty-one-year-old English tourist, who remained carefullyshod during a brief holiday in Thailand, stepped on athorn while gardening on the day after his return, and thereby injected into his heel the bacillus
Burkholderia pseudomallei
, which had probably colonized his shoes and feet at his Thai resort. Released after two weeks of intravenous antibiotics, he died three months later of a ruptured abdominal aorta. See James K. Torrens et al., “A DeadlyThorn: A Case of Imported Melioidosis,”
Lancet
, vol. 353, no. 9157 (March 20, 1999), 1016.
    12. Lam Sim-Fook and A. B. Hodgson, “Foot Forms Among the Non-Shoe[
sic
] and Shoe-Wearing Chinese Population,”
Journal of Bone and