Book ID: CBB037307385

Murky waters: British spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature (2022)

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Vasset, Sophie (Author)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 304
Language: English

Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of treatment and the social networks of care woven into spa towns. The book explores the great variety of medical and literary discourses on the numerous British spas in the long eighteenth century and offers a rare look at spas beyond Bath. Following the thread of 'murkiness', it explores the underwater culture of spas, from the gender fluidity of users to the local and national political dimensions, as well as the financial risks taken by gamblers and investors. It thus brings a fresh look at mineral waters and a pinch of salt to health-related discourses.

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Review Shaun Regan (2023) Review of "Murky waters: British spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature". Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 395-397). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bradley, James G.
Bycroft, Michael
Correa, Sílvio Marcus de Souza
Dupree, Marguerite Wright
Jennings, Eric Thomas
Kashin, Konstantin
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Fachgruppe Geschichte der Chemie
Russian Review
Publishers
Aracne
Brill
Duke University Press
Leo S. Olschki
London Publishing Partnership
Francisci
Concepts
Baths, public
Medicine
Health resorts, watering-places, etc.
Public health
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Water
People
Alberti, Leon Battista
Aurelianus, Caelius
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Paracelsus
Casares Rodríguez, Antonio
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Ancient
20th century, early
Medieval
Renaissance
Places
Italy
Great Britain
Europe
Germany
Africa
Brazil
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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