Jane M. Adams

Healing with water

English spas and the water cure, 1840-1960

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780719095696
• ISBN-10: 0719095697
• Artikelnr.: 42387011

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