Cholera and Nation : Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England (Suny series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)

Gilbert, Pamela K.

State University of New York Press（2008/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 241 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791473436
• DDC分類 362.1969320094109034

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008.

Full Description

How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.

Drawing from sermons, novels, newspaper editorials, poetry, medical texts, and the writings of social activists, Cholera and Nation explores how the coming of the cholera epidemics during a period of intense political reform in Britain set the terms by which the social body would be defined. In part by historical accident, epidemic disease and especially cholera became foundational to the understanding of the social body. As the healthy body was closely tied to a particular vision of nation and modernity, the unhealthy body was proportionately racialized and othered. In turn, epidemic disease could not be separated from issues of social responsibility, political management, and economic unrest, which perpetually threatened the nation and its identity. For the rest of the century, the emergent field of public health would be central to the British national imaginary, defining the nation's civilization and modernity by its sanitary progress.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

I.  A Sinful and Suffering Nation

1. A Sinful Nation: 1832

2. After 1832: Medical Authority and the Clergy

3. A Suffering Nation: Responses of the Poor and Radicals to the Cholera

II.  Medics and Discourses of Cholera

4. Medics and the Public Sphere

5. The Body in Question

6. Race, Gender, and Cholera

III.  Writing Nation's Body

7. Narrating Cholera and Nation

8. Kingsley: Nation, Gender, and the Body

Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index