Author: Erica Charters Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022618000X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 300
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The Seven Years' War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. The author demonstrates how disease played a vital role in shaping strategy and campaigning, British state policy, and imperial relations during the Seven Years' War.
Author: Margaret Cox Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited ISBN: 9781842173756 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 476
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This work traces the history of health and disease and the evidence for care and treatment through time in Britain using primary and secondary evidence. Chapters cover Palaeolithic times to the 20th century.
Author: Christopher R. Moran Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107000998 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 451
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Fascinating account of the British state's post-war obsession with secrecy and the ways it prevented secret activities from becoming public.
Author: Jacob Steere-Williams Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1648250025 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 341
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Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health
Author: Roy Porter Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1861898223 Category : Languages : en Pages : 330
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In this historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease, and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions of the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. With these images in mind, he explores aspects of being ill alongside the practice of medicine, paying special attention to self-presentations by physicians, surgeons, and quacks, and to changes in practitioners’ public identities over time. Porter also examines the wider symbolic meanings of disease and doctoring and the “body politic.” Porter’s book is packed with outrageous and amusing anecdotes portraying diseased bodies and medical practitioners alike.
Author: Charles Allan McCoy Publisher: ISBN: 9781625345073 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Outbreaks of Ebola, SARS, MERS, coronavirus, and pandemic influenza are brutal reminders of the dangers of infectious disease. Comparing the development of disease control in Britain and the United States, from the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia to the H1N1 panics of more recent times, Diseased States provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century. To understand why these two nations have handled contemporary disease threats in such different ways, Charles Allan McCoy examines when and how disease control measures were adopted in each country from the nineteenth century onward, which medical theory of disease was dominant at the time, and where disease control was located within the state apparatus. Particular starting conditions put Britain and the United States on distinct trajectories of institutionalization that led to their respective systems of disease control. As McCoy shows, even the seemingly objective matter of contagion is deeply enmeshed in social and political realities, and by developing unique systems of biopower to control the spread of disease, Britain and the United States have established different approaches of exerting political control over citizens' lives and bodies.
Author: Noelle Gallagher Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300240767 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 280
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A lively interdisciplinary study of how venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and artIn eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy, and was often represented using slang, symbolism, and wordplay. In this book, literary critic Noelle Gallagher explores the cultural significance of the “clap” (gonorrhea), the “pox” (syphilis), and the “itch” (genital scabies) for the development of eighteenth-century British literature and art.As a condition both represented through metaphors and used as a metaphor, venereal disease provided a vehicle for the discussion of cultural anxieties about gender, race, commerce, and immigration. Gallagher highlights four key concepts associated with the disease, demonstrating how the infection’s symbolic potency was enhanced by its links to elite masculinity, prostitution, foreignness, and nasal deformity. Casting light where the sun rarely shines, this study will fascinate anyone interested in the history of literature, art, medicine, and sexuality.
Author: Erica Charters
Author: Milton Friedman
Author: Suman Seth
Author: Margaret Cox
Author: Christopher R. Moran
Author: Jacob Steere-Williams
Author: Philippa Levine
Author: Roy Porter
Author: Charles Allan McCoy
Author: Noelle Gallagher