Title Health and Hazard : Spa Culture and the Social History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century.

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Summary	The spa in nineteenth century European society was a place of intersections: of social class and of ideas, of social and of scientific concepts. As the social showcase for "polite" society, it embodied many of the desires and dreams of the increasingly fashionable middle-class world. As a place prominent in the medical world of its day, the heath spa contributed to the ongoing dialogue of the emergent science of medicine, where both mainstream and voices of medical dissent were to be heard. T ...
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-195) and index.
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Subject	Hydrotherapy -- History.
	Hydrotherapy.
	History.
	Health resorts -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
	Health resorts.
	Europe.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Social medicine -- History -- 19th century.
	Social medicine.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Wood, Karl E. Health and Hazard : Spa Culture and the Social History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2012 9781443840996
ISBN	9781443845410
	1443845418
	9781443840996 (hardback)
	1443840998 (hardback)