Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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The “long nineteenth century” was an age of empire and empire builders, of state formation and expansion, and of colonial and imperial wars and conquest throughout most of the world. It was also an age that saw enormous changes in how people gave meaning to and made sense of the human body. Spanning the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume takes up a host of topics in the cultural history of the human body, including the rise of modern medicine and debates about vaccination, the representation of sexual perversity, developments in medical technology and new conceptions of bodily perfection. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-01-16
Mått168 x 239 x 20 mm
Vikt726 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCultural Histories Series
Antal sidor376
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472554666

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Michael Sappol is a historian in the History of Medicine Division of the National Libraryof Medicine in Washington, DC, USA and author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America. Stephen P. Rice is Professor of American Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA and author of Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America.

IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Empires in Bodies; Bodies in Empires Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine, USA1 Birth and Death under the Sign of Thomas Malthus Thomas Laqueur, University of California, USA and Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College, USA2 Medical Perspectives on Health and Disease Michael Worboys, University of Manchester, UK3 Othering Sexual Perversity: England, Empire, Race, and Sexual Science Richard C. Sha, American University, USA4 Medical Science, Technology, and the BodyChandak Sengoopta, University of London, UK5 Popular Beliefs and the Body: "A Nation of Good Animals" Pamela K. Gilbert, University of Florida, USA6 The Normal, the Ideal, and the Beautiful: Perfect Bodies during the Age of Empire Michael Hau, Monash University, Australia7 Empire, Boundaries, and Bodies: Colonial Tattooing Practices Clare Anderson, University of Warwick, UK8 Smallpox, Vaccination, and the Marked Body Nadja Durbach, University of Utah, USA9 Picturing Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College, USA10 From Mimetic Machines to Digital Organisms: The Transformation of the Human Motor Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index