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Health and Disease in Britain
Author | : Margaret Cox |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2011-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781842173756 |
This work traces the history of health and disease and the evidence for care and treatment through time in Britain using primary and secondary evidence. Chapters cover Palaeolithic times to the 20th century.
Disease, War, and the Imperial State
Author | : Erica Charters |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2014-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022618000X |
The Seven Years' War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. The author demonstrates how disease played a vital role in shaping strategy and campaigning, British state policy, and imperial relations during the Seven Years' War.
Difference and Disease
Author | : Suman Seth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2018-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108418309 |
Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Classified
Author | : Christopher R. Moran |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107000998 |
Fascinating account of the British state's post-war obsession with secrecy and the ways it prevented secret activities from becoming public.
Prostitution, Race, and Politics
Author | : Philippa Levine |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415944472 |
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The Filth Disease
Author | : Jacob Steere-Williams |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1648250025 |
Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health
Bodies Politic
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2021-03-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1861898223 |
In this historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease, and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions of the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. With these images in mind, he explores aspects of being ill alongside the practice of medicine, paying special attention to self-presentations by physicians, surgeons, and quacks, and to changes in practitioners’ public identities over time. Porter also examines the wider symbolic meanings of disease and doctoring and the “body politic.” Porter’s book is packed with outrageous and amusing anecdotes portraying diseased bodies and medical practitioners alike.
Diseased States
Author | : Charles Allan McCoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781625345073 |
Outbreaks of Ebola, SARS, MERS, coronavirus, and pandemic influenza are brutal reminders of the dangers of infectious disease. Comparing the development of disease control in Britain and the United States, from the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia to the H1N1 panics of more recent times, Diseased States provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century. To understand why these two nations have handled contemporary disease threats in such different ways, Charles Allan McCoy examines when and how disease control measures were adopted in each country from the nineteenth century onward, which medical theory of disease was dominant at the time, and where disease control was located within the state apparatus. Particular starting conditions put Britain and the United States on distinct trajectories of institutionalization that led to their respective systems of disease control. As McCoy shows, even the seemingly objective matter of contagion is deeply enmeshed in social and political realities, and by developing unique systems of biopower to control the spread of disease, Britain and the United States have established different approaches of exerting political control over citizens' lives and bodies.
Itch, Clap, Pox
Author | : Noelle Gallagher |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2019-01-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300240767 |
A lively interdisciplinary study of how venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and artIn eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy, and was often represented using slang, symbolism, and wordplay. In this book, literary critic Noelle Gallagher explores the cultural significance of the “clap” (gonorrhea), the “pox” (syphilis), and the “itch” (genital scabies) for the development of eighteenth-century British literature and art.As a condition both represented through metaphors and used as a metaphor, venereal disease provided a vehicle for the discussion of cultural anxieties about gender, race, commerce, and immigration. Gallagher highlights four key concepts associated with the disease, demonstrating how the infection’s symbolic potency was enhanced by its links to elite masculinity, prostitution, foreignness, and nasal deformity. Casting light where the sun rarely shines, this study will fascinate anyone interested in the history of literature, art, medicine, and sexuality.