Book ID: CBB460048744

Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914 (2021)

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Hussey, Kristin D. (Author)


University of Pittsburgh Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 312
Language: English

Since the eighteenth century, European administrators and officers, military men, soldiers, missionaries, doctors, wives, and servants moved back and forth between Britain and its growing imperial territories. The introduction of steam-powered vessels, and deep-docks to accommodate them at London ports, significantly reduced travel time for colonists and imperial servants traveling home to see their families, enjoy a period of study leave, or recuperate from the tropical climate. With their minds enervated by the sun, livers disrupted by the heat, and blood teeming with parasites, these patients brought the empire home and, in doing so, transformed medicine in Britain. With Imperial Bodies in London, Kristin D. Hussey offers a postcolonial history of medicine in London. Following mobile tropical bodies, her book challenges the idea of a uniquely domestic medical practice, arguing instead that British medicine was imperial medicine in the late Victorian era. Using the analytic tools of geography, she interrogates sites of encounter across the imperial metropolis to explore how medical research and practice were transformed and remade at the crossroads of empire.

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Review Philippa Levine (2023) Review of "Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 205-206). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Iorio, Elena
Arpesella, Marisa
Tina Travagliante
Silvano, Giovanni
Capasso, Lorenzo
Iorio, Silvia
Concepts
Public health
Medicine
Medicine and politics
Medicine and society
Disease and diseases
Colonialism
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
21st century
Early modern
Places
Italy
India
Great Britain
Middle and Near East
Hong Kong
Sicily
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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