Healing With Water - English Spas and the Water Cure, 18401960

Informationen zum Autor Jane Adams is an Associate Member of the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick Klappentext A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries Zusammenfassung A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1 The theory and practice of the water cure2 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 living5 Water, health and leisure6 National assets and national interests: spas and the stateConclusion BibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Jane M Adams, Jane M. Adams, Jane Meredith Adams, Adams Jane M.
• Assisted by: Jane M Adams (Editor), Jane M. Adams (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2015
• EAN: 9780719095696
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9569-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Alternative & Complementary Medicine, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Complementary therapies, healing & health, Complementary therapies, healing and health, Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies