This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century.
This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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
Inhaltsangabe
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 siècle Steffan Blayney 7 'A rebellion of the cells': cancer, modernity, and decline in fin de siècle 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
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 siècle Steffan Blayney 7 'A rebellion of the cells': cancer, modernity, and decline in fin de siècle 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
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