Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900Reaktion Books, 8 mars 2021 - 328 sidor Bodies Politic takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease, and health, as well as at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Arguing that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body, Roy Porter shows 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 the changes in practitioners’ public identities over time. Packed with amusing anecdotes and unusual illustrations, this book is a magisterial account of the meanings of disease, doctoring, and the “body politic.” “A wonderful book. . . . There are 137 illustrations . . . and every one is an exultation in the fleshly horrors of the era.”—Guardian (UK) “Roy Porter is one of the world’s best historical writers: his prose is pithy, witty, vivid, engaging, and perfectly paced. He has a keen eye for evidence and can wrest conclusions with analytical rigour and imaginative subtlety. He masters fact and theory with equal ease and wields both lightly and powerfully.”—Independent |
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... Malady', giving the island its reputation as Europe's madness and suicide epicentre. 'Sick – Sick – Sick ... O Sick – Sick – Spew', protested Garrick to his brother George in ; 'Sick! Sick! Sick! Sick!', came the literary ...
... Malady', giving the island its reputation as Europe's madness and suicide epicentre. 'Sick – Sick – Sick ... O Sick – Sick – Spew', protested Garrick to his brother George in ; 'Sick! Sick! Sick! Sick!', came the literary ...
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... maladies of the soul – to say nothing of wounds within the family, the social fabric and the body politic. These affinities between physic and ritual performance, clinched by the twinning of Apollo as the god of the arts and of healing ...
... maladies of the soul – to say nothing of wounds within the family, the social fabric and the body politic. These affinities between physic and ritual performance, clinched by the twinning of Apollo as the god of the arts and of healing ...
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... malady and health, the body bad and good, turn out to spawn surprising paradoxes: debasement, for instance, may invest the deformed body with a subversive energy, whereas the idealized body, though carrying high prestige, is shown to ...
... malady and health, the body bad and good, turn out to spawn surprising paradoxes: debasement, for instance, may invest the deformed body with a subversive energy, whereas the idealized body, though carrying high prestige, is shown to ...
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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 |
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