Pathologies of travel / / edited by Richard Wrigley, George Revill.
The essays in this volume, which range across Europe, America and Africa, and from the 18th to the 20th centuries, argue that the experience of travel, and the business of representing that experience, involved an obligatory engagement with the disturbing perception that travel's pleasures were...
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| Superior document: | The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta : : Rodopi,, 2000. |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (v, 338 pages) :; illustrations, portrait. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Richard Wrigley and George Revill
- Letting Madness Range: Travel and Mental Disorder, c1700-1900 / Jonathan Andrews
- The Continental Journeys of Andrew Duncan Junior: A physician’s education and the international culture of eighteenth-century medicine / Malcolm Nicolson
- Richard Jago’s Edge-Hill Revisited: A traveller’s prospect of the health and disease of a succession of national landscapes. / Matthew Craske
- ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, a Ballad of the Scurvy / Jonathan Lamb
- Lassitude and Revival in the Warm South: Relaxing and Exciting Travel, 1750-1830 / Chloe Chard
- Pathological Topographies and Cultural Itineraries: mapping ‘mal’aria’ in 18th- and 19th-century Rome. / Richard Wrigley
- The Railway Journey and the Neuroses of Modernity / Ralph Harrington
- Mobility, Syphilis, and Democracy: Pathologizing the Mobile Body / Tim Cresswell
- The Politics of Medical Topography: Seeking healthiness at the Cape during the nineteenth century / Harriet Deacon
- Sleepers Wake: André Gide and Disease in Travels in the Congo / Russell West.