Health and Disease in Britain

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

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

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

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.

The Filth Disease

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

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

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

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.