Book ID: CBB360737630

Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London (2017)

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Kerr, Matthew L. Newsom (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 370
Language: English

This book is a history of London’s vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Unprecedented in size and scope, this public infrastructure inaugurated a new technology of disease prevention―isolation. Londoners suffering from infectious diseases submitted themselves to far-reaching forms of surveillance, removal, and detention, which made them legible to science and the state in entirely new ways. Isolation on a mass scale transformed the meaning of urban epidemics and introduced contentious new relationships between health, citizenship, and the spaces of modern governance. Rich in archival sources and images, this engaging book offers innovative analysis at the intersection of preventive medicine and Victorian-era liberalism.

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Review Annmarie Adams (January 2020) Review of "Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London". Technology and Culture (pp. 347-349). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Michael Swash
Shorvon, Simon
Soffici, Manila
Rossor, Martin
Marchetti, Anna
Compston, Alastair
Concepts
Hospitals and clinics
Medicine
Disease and diseases
Public health
Virology
Smallpox
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Renaissance
17th century
Places
London (England)
England
Great Britain
Indonesia
Florence (Italy)
Italy
Institutions
Queen Square, London
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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