Pathological Bodies

Medicine and Political Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-938169-12-0
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 258 Seiten, Trade Cloth, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Berkeley Series in British Studies

This book explores the important connections between medicine and political culture that often have been overlooked. In response to the French revolution and British radicalism, political propagandists adopted a scientific vocabulary and medical images for their own purposes. New ideas about anatomy and pathology, sexuality and reproduction, cleanliness and contamination, and diet and drink migrated into politics in often startling ways, and to significant effect. These ideas were used to identify individuals as normal or pathological, and as "naturally" suitable or unsuitable for public life. This migration has had profound consequences for how we measure the bodies, practices and abilities of public figures and ourselves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagner, Corinna

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Über Autor(innen)

Corinna Wagner is Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter.