Book ID: CBB449680297

Progress and pathology: Medicine and culture in the nineteenth century (2020)

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Mukharji, Projit Bihari (Contributor)
Arnold-Forster, Agnes (Contributor)
Myllykangas, Mikko (Contributor)
Shuttleworth, Sally A. (Editor)
Schlicht, Laurens (Contributor)
Tsay, Alice (Contributor)
Simpson, Daniel (Contributor)
Hamlin, Christopher S. (Contributor)
Taylor, Steven J. (Contributor)
Swenson, Kristine L. (Contributor)
Riotte, Torsten (Contributor)
Mathias, Manon (Contributor)
Blayney, Steffan (Contributor)
Dickson, Melissa (Editor)
Taylor-Brown, Emilie (Editor)
Cantor, David (Editor)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 392
Language: English

This collaborative 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’. Essays within 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 ways that physiological and psychological problems were being constituted in relation to each other, and to their social contexts, and offers new ways of contextualising the problems of modernity facing us in the twenty-first century.

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Authors & Contributors
Dickson, Melissa
Ji-Hye Shin
Howard Y. F. Choy
Cobbold, Carolyn Ann
Servitje, Lorenzo
Bonea, Amelia
Concepts
Medicine and culture
Disease and diseases
Modernity
Public understanding of medicine
Medicine
Science and culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
United States
Germany
France
China
Japan
Institutions
Women's Engineering Society
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