Book ID: CBB373720154

Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease (2017)

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Day, Carolyn A. (Author)


Bloomsbury Academic


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 208 pages
Language: English

Long before "heroin chic" made headlines, the emaciated figure and feverish flush associated with tuberculosis victims were admired as beautiful. As the disease spread throughout Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it became commonplace toregard tuberculosis as a positive affliction, one to be emulated in beauty practices and dress. While medical writers believed that the fashionable way of life of many women actually rendered them susceptible to the disease, Carolyn A. Day investigates the deliberate and widespread flouting of admonitions against these fashion practices in the pursuit of beauty.

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Authors & Contributors
Marc Priewe
Mann, Annika
Shuttleton, David
Coyer, Megan J.
Parker, Sarah Elizabeth
Carmody, John
Concepts
Disease and diseases
Medicine and culture
Medicine and society
Medicine and literature
Tuberculosis
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
16th century
Early modern
Places
Europe
Great Britain
England
Toronto (Ontario)
New England (U.S.)
Scotland
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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