Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… cohabitation of pleasure and pain, of illness and fashion. In Bath, sociability aimed at healing the citizen’s body together with the body politic. Places > Cities Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Codes Fashion Health Leisure Politeness Ritual … paradoxically illness became an agent of sociability. 8 Discussing one’s illness was a way of reappropriating one’s body and of accepting it: it was part of a shared experience, even if not all ailments could be publicly discussed, in …
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