Author: George D. KahloPublisher:
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Category : Greenbrier County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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White Sulphur Springs, Climate Waters Baths and Other Curative Resources
Author: George D. KahloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greenbrier County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
White Sulphur Springs, Climate Waters Baths and Other Curative Resources
Author: George D. KahloWhite Sulphur Springs
Author: The White Sulphur Springs
Author: William Alexander MacCorklePublisher:
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Category : Health resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Body Electric
Author: Carolyn Thomas de la PenaPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081471983X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exploration, mental resources on energy exploitation, and monetary resources on energy acquisition. A unique combination of pseudoscientific theories of health and the public’s rudimentary understanding of energy created an age in which sources of industrial power seemed capable of curing the physical limitations and ill health that plagued Victorian bodies. Licensed and “quack” physicians alike promoted machines, electricity, and radium as invigorating cures, veritable “fountains of youth” that would infuse the body with energy and push out disease and death. The Body Electric is the first book to place changing ideas about fitness and gender in dialogue with the popular culture of technology. Whether through wearing electric belts, drinking radium water, or lifting mechanized weights, many Americans came to believe that by embracing the nation's rapid march to industrialization, electrification, and “radiomania,” their bodies would emerge fully powered. Only by uncovering this belief’s passions and products, Thomas de la Peña argues, can we fully understand our culture’s twentieth-century energy enthusiasm.
Healing Holidays
Author: Harish NaraindasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317615115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This volume on medical tourism includes contributions by anthropologists and historians on a variety of health-seeking modes of travel and leisure. It brings together analyses of recent trends of "medical tourism", such as underinsured middle-class Americans traveling to India for surgery, pious Middle Eastern couples seeking assisted reproduction outside their borders, or consumers of the exotic in search of alternative healing, with analyses of the centuries-old Euro-American tradition of traveling to spas. Rather than seeing these two forms of medical travel as being disparate, the book demonstrates that, as noted in the introduction ‘what makes patients itinerant in both the old and new kind of medical travel is either a perceived shortage or constraint at ‘home’, or the sense of having reached a particular kind of therapeutic impasse, with the two often so intertwined that it is difficult to tell them apart. The constraint may stem from things as diverse as religious injunctions, legal hurdles, social approbation, or seasonal affliction; and the shortage can range from a lack of privacy, of insurance, technology, competence, or enough therapeutic resources that can address issues and conditions that patients have. If these two intertwined strands are responsible for most medical tourism, then which locales seem to have therapeutic resources are those that are either ‘natural,’ in the form of water or climate; legal, in the form of a culture that does not stigmatise patients; or technological and professional, in the form of tests, equipment, or expertise, unavailable or affordable at home; or in the form of novel therapeutic possibilities that promise to resolve irresolvable issues’. This book was originally published as a special issue of Anthropology & Medicine.
The Resources, Soil, and Climate of Texas
Author: Texas. Dept. of agriculture, Statistics, and historyPublisher:
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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The Spur
Author: The Christian Union
Author: Henry Ward BeecherPublisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Information Bulletin
Author: Soviet Union. Posolʹstvo (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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