Science and the Construction of Therapeutics in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1879-1906

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dc.contributor.advisorCrowther, Kathleen
dc.contributor.authorBeasley, Caitlin
dc.contributor.committeeMemberNair, Aparna
dc.contributor.committeeMemberTracy, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-11T16:01:38Z
dc.date.available2018-05-11T16:01:38Z
dc.date.issued2018-05
dc.date.manuscript2018-05-02
dc.description.abstractThe late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a crisis in therapeutics as scientific developments overturned the theoretical underpinnings of humoral medicine, leaving room for lively and pluralistic discourses of health and healing. This thesis examines the controversies surrounding therapeutics in late nineteenth-century America through a microhistorical study of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a spa town developed in the late nineteenth century. Physicians, scientists, patients and town boosters all contributed to conversations about the healing properties of the natural springs that dot the landscape around Eureka Springs. Beginning in 1879 with Eureka’s founding, this work covers its establishment as a health resort by means of aggressive investment and advertising and traces the changes in rhetoric and language of the town’s promotional material and other ephemera through the early twentieth century. Its story, one peripheral but concurrent to that of mainstream medicine, makes clear that therapeutics, and by extension health, are constructed concepts, and that they are constantly being created by physicians, scientists, and the everyday person alike.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/299891
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.subjectmedicineen_US
dc.subjectchemistryen_US
dc.subjectclimatologyen_US
dc.subjecttherapeuticsen_US
dc.thesis.degreeMaster of Arts in History of Science, Technology and Medicineen_US
dc.titleScience and the Construction of Therapeutics in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1879-1906en_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of History of Scienceen_US

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