In Quest of a Cure (Record no. 70900)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780198972440
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Zafaa books Distributors
Distributor address : 313/103A, H.No. 15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi
Bill Number : ZBD-2026-27-0245
Bill Date : 10/10/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 616.009 SHU
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Shuttleworth, Sally.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title In Quest of a Cure
Remainder of title : Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Sally Shuttleworth.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Oxford University Press.
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2026.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xx, 509p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 5396
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc People have always travelled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers. Self-styled 'English Colonies' sprung up, not in the far-reaches of the Empire, but in health resorts in the heart of Europe. This work explores the intensity and sheer strangeness of life in these colonies, governed by illness, but where patients (before the rise of the sanatorium) could move around freely, and even indulge in winter sports. Focusing on Menton on the Riviera and Davos in the Swiss Alps, from the 1860s to the 1920s, In Quest of a Cure explores the literary and medical cultures of these resorts: the lives, conflicting emotions, and writings of the patients and their carers, and the changing patterns of medical treatment. Many of the patients ordered to winter abroad had tuberculosis, but others were cases of nervous disorders, or sufferers from 'overwork', what we would now call burnout, all hoping to be cured once placed in the right climatic environment.<br/><br/>Blending medical and literary history and analysis, Sally Shuttleworth looks in depth at the lives and writings of literary invalids, including John Addington Symonds, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Katherine Mansfield, leading up to an extended study of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, placed in the medical and literary context of Davos life. Other literary lives and fiction explored include Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Olive Schreiner, Vernon Lee, 'new woman' novelist Beatrice Harraden, and Llewelyn Powys. In Quest of a Cure considers the pleasures as well as the pains of medical exile, and the close bonds which often developed between doctor and patient. Medical climatology, as it was called, is a discarded science, but its prescription of fresh air, exercise, and sunshine brought about a revolution in medical practices at the time. In its understanding of the relationship between individual health and surrounding environment, it offers new perspectives for us to think about the challenges of current times.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Literary and Medical
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medical Cultures
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Health Resort
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sally Shuttleworth.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 13/10/2026 Zafaa Books & Distributors 5396.00 1 616.009 SHU 31888 16/11/2026 14/10/2026 14/10/2026 13/10/2026 Books
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