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The history of massage : an illustrated survey from around the world
- Title
- The history of massage : an illustrated survey from around the world / Robert Noah Calvert.
- Author
- Calvert, Robert Noah.
- Publication
- Rochester, Vt. : Healing Arts Press, c2002.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | *OAC 03-7133 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 268 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-257) and index.
- Contents
- What is massage? -- Shamanic and priestly origins of massage -- Massage in the ancient world : Babylonia, Egypt, China, and India -- Massage in the ancient world : Greece and Rome -- Keeping the faith : massage from the fall of the Roman Empire to the nineteenth century -- Nineteenth century massage in gymnastics and movement therapy -- First steps to credibility : massage in nineteenth-century medicine -- Massage in nineteenth-century alternative, therapeutic, and restorative cultures -- Massage tools and mediums -- The evolution of massage technique -- The golden age of massage.
- Call Number
- *OAC 03-7133
- ISBN
- 0892818816 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2002000056
- OCLC
- 48768117
- Author
- Calvert, Robert Noah.
- Title
- The history of massage : an illustrated survey from around the world / Robert Noah Calvert.
- Imprint
- Rochester, Vt. : Healing Arts Press, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-257) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *OAC 03-7133 (Locked cage)