ISBN: 9781439904275

An exploration of the relationship between hydrotherapy and the women who took the cureIn a century characterized by dramatic health-care remediesbloodletting, purging, and leeching, for … Mehr…

An exploration of the relationship between hydrotherapy and the women who took the cureIn a century characterized by dramatic health-care remediesbloodletting, purging, and leeching, for examplehydropathy 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, practices, medical and social philosophies, institutions, and the most prominent proponents of the water-cure movement and studies them in relation to the diverse reform networks of the nineteenth century. Documenting the popularity and importance of hydropathy among female activists, Cayleff argues that the water-cure movement was overpowered by allopathic (or orthodox) medicine which viewed hydropathy as a crackpot therapeutic largely because of its close association with nineteenth-century social activism. The book gives us an alternative view of social and sexual relationships which should contribute to the growing awareness among scholars that the history of health and healing must be more than the history of allopathic medicine. The Water-Cure Movement and Women´s Health eBook eBooks>Fremdsprachige eBooks>Englische eBooks>Sach- & Fachthemen>Medizin, Temple University Press<

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An exploration of the relationship between hydrotherapy and the women who took the cure Book, , Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health~~ Cayleff, Susan E.~~Book~~9… Mehr…

An exploration of the relationship between hydrotherapy and the women who took the cure Book, , Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health~~ Cayleff, Susan E.~~Book~~9781439904275, en, Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health, Cayleff, Susan E., 9781439904275, Temple University Press, 06/01/1987, , , , Temple University Press, 06/01/1987<

ISBN: 9781439904275

Susan Cayleff, NOOK Book (eBook),Series: Health Society And Policy, English-language edition, Pub by Temple University Press on 05-18-2010 EBooks Books~~Social Sciences~~General Wash-and-… Mehr…

Susan Cayleff, NOOK Book (eBook),Series: Health Society And Policy, English-language edition, Pub by Temple University Press on 05-18-2010 EBooks Books~~Social Sciences~~General Wash-and-Be-Healed~~Susan-E-Cayleff Temple University Press<