Jane M. Adams

Healing with water (eBook, ePUB)

English spas and the water cure, 1840-1960

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780719098062
• Artikelnr.: 43436712

Autorenporträt

Jane Adams is an Associate Member of the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

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 Bibliography Index