Progress and Pathology

Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

AvSally Shuttleworth,Melissa Dickson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

This volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century. With case studies from Britain, America, France, Germany, Finland, Bengal, China and the South Pacific, it demonstrates how popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were reframed by the social, cultural and political structures of ‘modern life’. Chapters in the collection examine ways in which cancer, suicide and social degeneration were seen as products of the stresses and strains of ‘new’ ways of living. Others explore the legal, institutional and intellectual changes that contributed to modern medical practice. The volume traces how physiological and psychological problems were constituted in relation to each other and to their social contexts, offering new ways of contextualising the problems of modernity facing us in the twenty-first century.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, 'Good health and well-being'.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-31
Mått:138 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt:599 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Social Histories of Medicine
Antal sidor:392
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526133687

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Melissa Dickson is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Birmingham, and was formerly a Postdoctoral researcher on the Diseases of Modern Life project at St Anne’s College, OxfordEmilie Taylor-Brown is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Diseases of Modern Life project at St Anne’s College, OxfordSally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford

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Introduction – Melissa Dickson, Emilie Taylor-Brown, and Sally ShuttleworthPart I: Constructing the modern self1 Revolutionary shocks: the French human sciences and the crafting of modern subjectivity, 1794–1816 – Laurens Schlicht2 Medical negligence in nineteenth-century Germany – Torsten Riotte3 Imperfect bodies: the ‘pathology’ of childhood in late nineteenth-century London – Steven Taylor4 Phrenology as neurodiversity: the Fowlers and modern brain disorder – Kristine SwensonPart II: Paradoxes of modern living5 A disease-free world: the hygienic utopia in Jules Verne, Camille Flammarion, and William Morris – Manon Mathias6 ‘Drooping with the century’: fatigue and the fin de siècle – Steffan Blayney 7 ‘A rebellion of the cells’: cancer, modernity, and decline in fin-de-siècle Britain – Agnes Arnold-Forster8 The curse and the gift of modernity in late nineteenth-century suicide discourse in Finland – Mikko MyllykangasPart III: Negotiating global modernities 9 From physiograms to cosmograms: Daktar Binodbihari Ray Kabiraj and the metaphorics of the nineteenth-century Ayurvedic body – Projit Bihari Mukharji10 From Schenectady to Shanghai: Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and the hybrid pathways of Chinese modernity – Alice Tsay11 Poisonous arrows and unsound minds: hysterical tetanus in the Victorian South Pacific – Daniel SimpsonPart IV: Reflections and provocation12 What is your complaint? Health as moral economy in the long nineteenth century – Christopher Hamlin BibliographyIndex