| Description |
1 online resource (x, 247 pages) |
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Health, society, and policy |
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Health, society, and policy.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Rise of Medical Sectarianism; Chapter One: Wash and Be Healed: The Hydropathic Alternative; Chapter Two: Hydropathy, Woman's Physiology, and Her Role; Chapter Three: Ideology in Practice: Water-Cure Establishments; Chapter Four: Hydropathy and the Reform Movements; Chapter Five: Women at the Cures: Rest for the Weary Activist; Conclusion: Demise and Legacy of the Water-Cure Movement; Notes; An Essay on Sources; Index |
| Summary |
In a century characterized by dramatic health-care remedies-bloodletting, purging, and leeching, for example-hydropathy was one of the most celebrated alternative forms of medical care. Unlike these other cures, however, hydropathy, which entailed various applications of cold water, also staunchly advocated the reformation of such personal habits as diet, exercise, dress, and way of life. Susan E. Cayleff explores the relationship between this fascinating sect of nineteenth-century medicine and the women who took the cure.Wash and Be Healed investigates the theories, pra |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hydrotherapy -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Women.
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Balneology -- history
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Complementary Therapies -- history
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Women
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women (female humans)
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Women
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Hydrotherapy
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Women -- Health and hygiene
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Hydrotherapie
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Frau
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781439904275 |
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1439904278 |
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9780877224624 |
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0877224625 |
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