Healing Waters

Bringing together a range of different place-studies including holy wells spa towns Turkish baths and sweat-houses sea-bathing and the modern spa this book investigates associations between water health place and culture in Ireland. It is informed by a humanistic approach showing how health and place are socially and culturally constructed and how health is embodied experienced and enacted in place. In addition the work argues that an understanding of health and place must also consider the historical societal and cultural orthodoxies that shape and produce those places.