UID:
almafu_9959230941602883
Format:
1 online resource :
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illustrations (black and white)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-7190-9806-8
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1-78170-843-6
Content:
'Healing with Water' provides a medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from 1840 to 1960. It investigates health practices and healing cultures at specialist inland resorts showing that water was used in varied therapeutic approaches by both orthodox and unorthodox practitioners.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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HEALING WITH WATER: English spas and the water cure, 1840-1960 -- Half Title Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The theory and practice of the water cure -- 2. The development and marketing of specialist water cure resorts -- 3. Specialisation at the water cure: institutions and skilled workers -- 4. Water cure, regimen and healthy living -- 5. Water, health and leisure -- 6. National assets and national interests: spas and the state -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-9569-7
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
;
History.
URL:
Manchester scholarship online
URL:
Manchester scholarship online
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