Wash and Be Healed

The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health

Автор: Susan E. Cayleff

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Temple University Press,U.S.

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In a century characterized by dramatic health-care remedies bloodletting, purging, and leeching, for...

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Автор

Susan E. Cayleff

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1991

страници

264

EAN

9780877228592

ISBN

0877228590

Enbook ID

04946332

Издател

Temple University Press,U.S.

Теглоt

363

Размери

152 x 229 x 19

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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, 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. Susan E. Cayleff is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at San Diego State University.

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