Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… emerged and interacted in modes that were the result of the paradoxical 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 > … of Bath visitors, a place where medical treatment was inextricably linked with conversation and where 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 …
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