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

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...

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Main Author: Wood, Karl E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
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