Progress and Pathology
Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Published on 31. January 2020
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-1-5261-3368-7 (ISBN)
Description
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. -- .
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. -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
621 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-3368-7 (9781526133687)
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Persons
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, Oxford
Emilie Taylor-Brown is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Diseases of Modern Life project at St Anne's College, Oxford
Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford -- .
Emilie Taylor-Brown is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Diseases of Modern Life project at St Anne's College, Oxford
Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford -- .
Content
Introduction - Melissa Dickson, Emilie Taylor-Brown, and Sally Shuttleworth
Part I: Constructing the modern self
1 Revolutionary shocks: the French human sciences and the crafting of modern subjectivity, 1794-1816 - Laurens Schlicht
2 Medical negligence in nineteenth-century Germany - Torsten Riotte
3 Imperfect bodies: the 'pathology' of childhood in late nineteenth-century London - Steven Taylor
4 Phrenology as neurodiversity: the Fowlers and modern brain disorder - Kristine Swenson
Part II: Paradoxes of modern living
5 A disease-free world: the hygienic utopia in Jules Verne, Camille Flammarion, and William Morris - Manon Mathias
6 'Drooping with the century': fatigue and the fin de siecle - Steffan Blayney
7 'A rebellion of the cells': cancer, modernity, and decline in fin-de-siecle Britain - Agnes Arnold-Forster
8 The curse and the gift of modernity in late nineteenth-century suicide discourse in Finland - Mikko Myllykangas
Part III: Negotiating global modernities
9 From physiograms to cosmograms: Daktar Binodbihari Ray Kabiraj and the metaphorics of the nineteenth-century Ayurvedic body - Projit Bihari Mukharji
10 From Schenectady to Shanghai: Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and the hybrid pathways of Chinese modernity - Alice Tsay
11 Poisonous arrows and unsound minds: hysterical tetanus in the Victorian South Pacific - Daniel Simpson
Part IV: Reflections and provocation
12 What is your complaint? Health as moral economy in the long nineteenth century - Christopher Hamlin
Bibliography
Index -- .
Part I: Constructing the modern self
1 Revolutionary shocks: the French human sciences and the crafting of modern subjectivity, 1794-1816 - Laurens Schlicht
2 Medical negligence in nineteenth-century Germany - Torsten Riotte
3 Imperfect bodies: the 'pathology' of childhood in late nineteenth-century London - Steven Taylor
4 Phrenology as neurodiversity: the Fowlers and modern brain disorder - Kristine Swenson
Part II: Paradoxes of modern living
5 A disease-free world: the hygienic utopia in Jules Verne, Camille Flammarion, and William Morris - Manon Mathias
6 'Drooping with the century': fatigue and the fin de siecle - Steffan Blayney
7 'A rebellion of the cells': cancer, modernity, and decline in fin-de-siecle Britain - Agnes Arnold-Forster
8 The curse and the gift of modernity in late nineteenth-century suicide discourse in Finland - Mikko Myllykangas
Part III: Negotiating global modernities
9 From physiograms to cosmograms: Daktar Binodbihari Ray Kabiraj and the metaphorics of the nineteenth-century Ayurvedic body - Projit Bihari Mukharji
10 From Schenectady to Shanghai: Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and the hybrid pathways of Chinese modernity - Alice Tsay
11 Poisonous arrows and unsound minds: hysterical tetanus in the Victorian South Pacific - Daniel Simpson
Part IV: Reflections and provocation
12 What is your complaint? Health as moral economy in the long nineteenth century - Christopher Hamlin
Bibliography
Index -- .