Healing with water : English spas and the water cure, 1840-1960 /

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'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 unortho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, Jane M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medical Geography.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Public Health.
Mineral waters > Therapeutic use.
Health resorts.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healthy Living.
Health Resorts > history
Mineral Waters > therapeutic use
Balneology > history
Health resorts > England > History.
England.
England
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:'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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780719098079

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