Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900Reaktion Books, 8 mars 2021 - 328 sidor In this historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease, and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions of the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. With these images in mind, he explores aspects of being ill alongside the practice of medicine, paying special attention to self-presentations by physicians, surgeons, and quacks, and to changes in practitioners’ public identities over time. Porter also examines the wider symbolic meanings of disease and doctoring and the “body politic.” Porter’s book is packed with outrageous and amusing anecdotes portraying diseased bodies and medical practitioners alike. |
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... Gout , a High Priest ; a Gibbet , a Secretary of State ; a Chamber pot , a Committee of Grandees ; a Sieve , a Court Lady ; a Broom , a Revolution ; a Mouse - trap , an Employment ; a bottomless Pit , the Treasury ; a Sink , a C — t ; a ...
... Gout , a High Priest ; a Gibbet , a Secretary of State ; a Chamber pot , a Committee of Grandees ; a Sieve , a Court Lady ; a Broom , a Revolution ; a Mouse - trap , an Employment ; a bottomless Pit , the Treasury ; a Sink , a C — t ; a ...
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... gout , rheumatism and respiratory complaints racked the old . 18 The rise of seaports and industrial towns bred new ' filth diseases ' , and tuberculosis , that ' white plague ' , became a dire urban killer . 19 Not least , the Georgian ...
... gout , rheumatism and respiratory complaints racked the old . 18 The rise of seaports and industrial towns bred new ' filth diseases ' , and tuberculosis , that ' white plague ' , became a dire urban killer . 19 Not least , the Georgian ...
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3 The Body Healthy and Beautiful | 63 |
4 Imagining Disease | 89 |
Plate Section I | 97 |
5 Prototypes of Practitioners | 129 |
Plate Secton II | 177 |
8 Professional Problems | 209 |
9 The Medical Politician and the Body Politic | 229 |
10 VictorianDevelopments | 250 |
Afterword | 272 |
References | 276 |
Select Bibliography | 315 |
Photographic Acknowledgements | 318 |
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Bodies Politic: Disease, Death, and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 Roy Porter Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2001 |
Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 Roy Porter Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2001 |
Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 Roy Porter Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2014 |
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