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DESCRIPTION:Today we think of a spa visit as a luxury getaway\, a chance to
  rest\, relax\, and indulge. But four hundred years ago\, visiting the spa 
 was something very different: uncomfortable\, embarrassing\, and even painf
 ul\, a necessary medicine that offered the promise of a powerful cure\, eve
 n if it was at the cost of personal dignity. This talk traces the premodern
  history of mineral water medicine\, showing how\, in the eighteenth-centur
 y British Atlantic world\, spas offered free medical resources to all peopl
 e. Spas were imagined as a 'curative commons\,' a place where anyone\, rega
 rdless of their nationality\, social status\, or gender\, could take the wa
 ters for free. Making sure that people behaved within the steamy confines o
 f the pools was another story entirely.\n\nAmanda E. Herbert is Associate P
 rofessor of Early Modern Americas in the History Department at Durham Unive
 rsity. She is an historian of the body: gender and sexuality\; health and w
 ellness\; food\, drink\, and appetite. She holds the Ph.D. in History from 
 Johns Hopkins University\, and is the author of Female Alliances: Gender\, 
 Identity\, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain (Yale\, 2014) winner of t
 he Best Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Sh
 e’s published articles in Gender & History\, the Journal of British Studies
 \, and Early American Studies\, among others. She’s an editor for The Recip
 es Project\, an e-journal devoted to the study of historical recipes of all
  kinds. Her grant-funded collaborative projects have been supported by the 
 AHRC\, SSHRC\, and the Mellon Foundation\, and include the $1.5 million Fol
 ger Shakespeare Library Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and C
 ultures. She is at work on two book projects\, Spa Medicine and Body Politi
 cs in the British Atlantic World\; and Leftovers: The Afterlives of Early M
 odern Food. She writes for all audiences\, including Time Magazine\, the Ti
 mes Literary Supplement\, Aeon\, and Gastro Obscura.\n\nThis event is co-sp
 onsored by the Health\, Medicine\, and Society Program and the History Depa
 rtment.
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SUMMARY:Gipson: Stewing Alive: Public Bathing\, Mineral Spas\, and the Cura
 tive Commons in the British Atlantic World with Amanda E. Herbert
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 hing-mineral-spas-and-the-curative-commons-in-the-british-atlantic-world-wi
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