Lectures on Massage and Electricity

Lectures on Massage and Electricity
Author: Thomas Stretch Dowse
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1483281256

Lectures on Massage & Electricity in the Treatment of Disease (Masso – electrotherapeutics) focuses on the application of massage in treating diseases. The book first offers information on the mechanical principles of massage and the mode and method of applying massage. The text then takes a look at massage of the head, neck, and the parts in association therewith, faradic massage of the skin, and massage of muscles and nerves. The manuscript elaborates on the massage of venous and lymph circulations, the Weir-Mitchell treatment, massage of the chest and abdomen, massage in nervous exhaustion and hysteria, and massage of the spine and back. The text also takes a look at massage in joints and bursal affections, massage in sleeplessness, pain, dipsomania, morphiomania, and melancholia, and massage in the wasting diseases of children, and in the diseases of sedentary, changing, and advanced life. The text is a dependable reference for readers interested in the use of massage in treating diseases.

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Women, Science, and Technology
Author: Mary Wyer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2013-09-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135055424

Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies. This third edition fully updates its predecessor with a new introduction and twenty-eight new readings that explore social constructions mediated by technologies, expand the scope of feminist technoscience studies, and move beyond the nature/culture paradigm.