Progress and pathology : : medicine and culture in the nineteenth century / / edited by Melissa Dickson, Emilie Taylor-Brown and Sally Shuttleworth.

• Superior document: Social Histories of Medicine
• HerausgeberIn: Taylor-Brown, Emilie; Shuttleworth, Sally
• Sonstige: Dickson, Melissa; Taylor-Brown, Emilie; Shuttleworth, Sally
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2020.; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Social histories of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 pages) :; digital file(s).

This collaborative 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...

Table of Contents

• Introduction / Sally Shuttleworth, Melissa Dickson, and Emilie Taylor-Brown
• Part 1: Constructing the Modern Self
• 1. Revolutionary Shocks: The French Human Sciences and the Crafting of Modern Subjectivity / Laurens Schlicht
• 2. Innocence, Impairment, and Pathology: Constructing Childhood in a Late Nineteenth-Century Charitable Home / Steven Taylor
• 3. Phrenology as Neurodiversity: The Fowlers and Modern Brain Disorders / Kristine Swenson
• 4. Medical Negligence in Nineteenth-Century Germany / Torsten Riotte
• Part 2: Paradoxes of Modern Living
• 5. Rhythm and Adaptation in the Machine Age / Laura Marcus
• 6. 'Drooping with the Century': Fatigue and the Fin de Siècle / Steffan Blayney
• 7. A Disease-Free World: Hygienic Utopia in Jules Verne, Camille Flammarion, and William Morris / Manon Mathias
• 8. Pathology of Progress: Cancer, Modernity, and Decline in Nineteenth-Century Britain / Agnes Arnold-Forster
• 9. The Curse and the Gift of Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Suicide Discourse in Finland / Mikko Myllykangas
• Part 3: Negotiating Global Modernities
• 10. From Physiograms to Cosmograms: Daktar Binodbihari Ray Kabiraj and the Metaphorics of the Nineteenth-Century Ayurvedic Body / Projit Mukharji
• 11. Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and the Formation of Global Modernity / Alice Tsay
• 12. Poisonous Arrows and Unsound Minds: Missionary Modernity in the Victorian South Pacific / Daniel Simpson
• Part 4: Legacies of Medicine and Modernity
• 13. What is your Complaint? Health as Moral Economy in the Long Nineteenth Century / Christopher Hamlin.