Health and Hazard

Spa Culture and the Social History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

Karl E. Wood (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

215 Seiten

2012 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-4099-6 (ISBN)

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The spa in nineteenth century European society was a place of intersections: of social class and of ideas, of social and of scientific concepts. As the social showcase for “polite” society, it embodied many of the desires and dreams of the increasingly fashionable middle-class world. As a place prominent in the medical world of its day, the heath spa contributed to the ongoing dialogue of the emergent science of medicine, where both mainstream and voices of medical dissent were to be heard. Thus, in the enclosed and limited space of a thermal health spa lie encapsulated significant historical trends and social dialogues.Over the course of the long nineteenth century, the doctor-patient relationship shifted from one in which the patient was the primary decision maker to one dominated by the “order-giving” professional physician over the “compliant” patient. This process could not have occurred without a significant change in the attitude of the patients themselves. The spa, a place containing diverse and competing strands of medical thought and a wide range of middle-class patients, offers a unique research opportunity for a focused social history of German medicine that reaches beyond the world of the spa; or indeed, of medicine into the darker chapters of the twentieth century and the turn from liberalism toward authoritarianism.

Karl Wood completed his PhD in History at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004. He is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Modern Philology and Applied Linguistics at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.12.2012
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-4438-4099-8 / 1443840998
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-4099-6 / 9781443840996
Zustand	Neuware