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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... London EC I M 3JU, UK www.reaktionbooks.co.uk First published 2001 Copyright @ Roy Porter 2001 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means ...
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... London, disbanded last year. I am delighted to acknowledge the enormous support given to me by members of the staff, notably my secretaries, first Frieda Houser and then Rebecca Baker, and Caroline Overy and Sharon Messenger as research ...
... London, disbanded last year. I am delighted to acknowledge the enormous support given to me by members of the staff, notably my secretaries, first Frieda Houser and then Rebecca Baker, and Caroline Overy and Sharon Messenger as research ...
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... [London, ]). In the chaos surrounding the botched birth of Tristram, the servant Susannah sets the obstetrician Dr Slop's wig alight; he throws a cataplasm, or poultice, in her face. The etching is nearly contemporaneous with the ...
... [London, ]). In the chaos surrounding the botched birth of Tristram, the servant Susannah sets the obstetrician Dr Slop's wig alight; he throws a cataplasm, or poultice, in her face. The etching is nearly contemporaneous with the ...
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... London's theatregoers: a street demo staged in by the Licentiates (rank and file) of the Royal College of Physicians, in protest against the power monopoly enjoyed within that august institution by its Fellows, the inner elite ...
... London's theatregoers: a street demo staged in by the Licentiates (rank and file) of the Royal College of Physicians, in protest against the power monopoly enjoyed within that august institution by its Fellows, the inner elite ...
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... London's Royal College of Physicians, chartered in . By curbing membership and policing metropolitan practice, the College's oligarchy, critics avowed, was blocking newer, better, or cheaper approaches to healing, including ...
... London's Royal College of Physicians, chartered in . By curbing membership and policing metropolitan practice, the College's oligarchy, critics avowed, was blocking newer, better, or cheaper approaches to healing, including ...
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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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