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- catalog abstract "The essays in this volume, which range across Europe, America and Africa, and from the 18th to the 20th centuries, argue that the experience of travel, and the business of representing that experience, involved an obligatory engagement with the disturbing perception that travel's pleasures were inseparable from its dangers and ennuis. Despite the confidence of some medical authorities in their recommendations of the therapeutic benefits to be derived from 'change of air' as a way of restoring a state of health, such opinions failed to establish a consensus, either amongst those who followed such peripatetic prescriptions, or amongst the medical professions in general. Mad doctors and climatologists alike were forced to adopt an essentially partisan stance in arguing their case for such recommendations, and were confronted by rival practitioners who could marshal counter-case histories which demonstrated diametrically opposed conclusions concerning the advisability of travel.".
- catalog contributor b11603195.
- catalog contributor b11603196.
- catalog contributor b11603197.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The essays in this volume, which range across Europe, America and Africa, and from the 18th to the 20th centuries, argue that the experience of travel, and the business of representing that experience, involved an obligatory engagement with the disturbing perception that travel's pleasures were inseparable from its dangers and ennuis. Despite the confidence of some medical authorities in their recommendations of the therapeutic benefits to be derived from 'change of air' as a way of restoring a state of health, such opinions failed to establish a consensus, either amongst those who followed such peripatetic prescriptions, or amongst the medical professions in general. Mad doctors and climatologists alike were forced to adopt an essentially partisan stance in arguing their case for such recommendations, and were confronted by rival practitioners who could marshal counter-case histories which demonstrated diametrically opposed conclusions concerning the advisability of travel.".
- catalog extent "v, 338 p. :".
- catalog identifier "904200598X (Paper)".
- catalog identifier "9042006080 (Bound)".
- catalog isPartOf "Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 56.".
- catalog isPartOf "Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 56".
- catalog isPartOf "The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine".
- catalog isPartOf "Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amsterdam ; Atlanta, Ga. : Rodopi,".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog subject "Communicable Diseases history Europe.".
- catalog subject "Communicable diseases Europe History.".
- catalog subject "Diseases and history Europe.".
- catalog subject "History, Modern 1601- Europe.".
- catalog subject "History, Modern 1601-".
- catalog subject "RA783.5 .P38 2000x".
- catalog subject "Travel Health aspects History.".
- catalog subject "Travel history Europe.".
- catalog subject "Travel history".
- catalog subject "Travelers Diseases History.".
- catalog subject "W1 CL933 v.56 2000".
- catalog subject "WZ 70 GA1 P297 2000".
- catalog title "Pathologies of travel / edited by Richard Wrigley and George Revill.".
- catalog type "Essays".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".