Regenerating England : : science, medicine and culture in inter-war Britain / / edited by Christopher Lawrence and Anna-K. Mayer.

• Superior document: Clio Medica ; 60
• TeilnehmendeR: Lawrence, Christopher, 1947-; Mayer, Anna-K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 60.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (iii, 316 pages) :; illustrations.

In the inter-war years there was much debate in Britain as to whether the best path to post-World War I regeneration would be found in the promises of science and technology, in continued and increased efficiency, in specialization and professionalization or whether the future of the nation depended on a rediscovery of older (and more authentic) ways of doing things, on a defiant anti-modernism. This debate on Britain's future was often conducted in terms of Englishness and the rebirth of a lost, more spiritual, village England. However, ‘Englishness' also entered inter-war social thinking through eclectic assimilations of diverse traditions. Prominent themes in the discourses on Britain's post-war regeneration include national character, citizenship, fitness, education, utopia, community and so on. The chapters in the present volume address these themes and break new ground by examining debates well known in political and literary history through their relations to science, medicine, architecture and ideas of social and political ‘health'.

Table of Contents

Regenerating England: An Introduction / Christopher Lawrence and Anna-K. Mayer -- H.V.Morton’s English Utopia / Michael Bartholomew -- Edward Jenner’s Jockey Boots and the Great Tradition in English Medicine 1918–1939 / Christopher Lawrence -- ‘A combative sense of duty’: Englishness and the Scientists / Anna-K. Mayer -- ‘The shell of a prosperous age’: History, Landscape and the Modern in Paul Rotha’s The Face of Britain (1935) / Timothy Boon -- ‘Enriching and enlarging the whole sphere of human activities’: The Work of the Voluntary Sector in Housing Reform in Inter-War Britain / Elizabeth Darling -- A Healthy Society for Future Intellectuals: Developing Student Life at Civic Universities / Keith Vernon -- Potential For Participation: Health Centres and the Idea of Citizenship c.1920-1940 / Abigail Beach -- Constituting Citizenship: Mental Deficiency,Mental Health and Human Rights in Inter-war Britain / Mathew Thomson -- The Biopolitics of Arthur Keith and Morley Roberts / Rhodri Hayward -- ‘Not a domestic utensil but a woman and a citizen’: Stella Browne on Women, Health and Society / Lesley A. Hall.