Murky waters

Murky waters

Sophie Vasset

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Manchester University Press (P648)
Año de edición:
2022
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Historia de la medicina
ISBN:
9781526159717
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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.

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