Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health

Susan E. Cayleff is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University.

List of contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Rise of Medical Sectarianism
1. Wash and Be Healed: The Hydropathic Alternative
2. Hydropathy, Woman' sPhysiology, and Her Role
3. Ideology in Practice: Water-Cure Establishments
4. Hydropathy and the Reform Movements
5. Women at the Cures: Rest for the Weary Activist
Conclusion: Demise and Legacy of the Water-Cure Movement
Notes
An Essay on Sources
Index

About the author

Susan E. Cayleff is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University.

Summary

Hydropathy advocates the reformation of such personal habits as diet, exercise, dress, and way of life. This book investigates the theories, practices, medical and social philosophies, institutions, and the most prominent proponents of the water-cure movement and studies them in relation to the diverse reform networks of the nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Cayleff, Susan E. Cayleff
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780877228592
• ISBN: 978-0-87722-859-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Health Society And Policy; Health Society and Policy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories