Vasset Murky waters

British spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5972-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 17, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the centrality of health in spa towns.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vasset, Sophie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Sick bodies
2 From bogs to jug: a risky remedy?
3 Waters of desire: promiscuity, gender and sexuality
4 Pump room politics and the murky past of spas
5 Pumping and pouring: watering places and the money business
Conclusion
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sophie Vasset is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the Institute for Research on the Renaissance, Classical Age and Enlightenment, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3