Calvert, Robert Noah. <br/><br/>
The history of massage:  an illustrated survey from around the world/ 
Robert Noah Calvert. 
 - Rochester, Vt.:  Healing Arts Press,  c2002. 
 - xvii, 268 p.:  ill.;  28 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-257) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0892818816 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002000056 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Massage therapy--History.<br/>Massage--history.<br/>Massage--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>615.8/22/09