The Healing Sea: A Sustainable Coastal Ocean Resource: Thalassotherapy

@inproceedings{Charlier2009TheHS,
  title={The Healing Sea: A Sustainable Coastal Ocean Resource: Thalassotherapy},
  author={Roger H. Charlier and Marie-Claire Chaineux},
  year={2009}
}
Abstract Thalassotherapy is perhaps less an alternative medicine than a treatment for specific ailments. It has witnessed ups and downs. A centuries-old, if not millennia-old, approach, it has gained many adepts in the medical profession and left many a patient delighted with its results. Thalassotherapy has many aspects in common with thermalism that, similarly, gained its lettres de noblesse over the centuries. This paper examines the roles that thalassotherapy has played and currently plays… 
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