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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... Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medievaland Renaissance Europe MITCHELL B. MERBACK 'Down With the Crown' British Anti-monarchism and Debates about Royalty since 1790 ANTONY TAYLOR The Jewish Self-Image American and British ...
... Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medievaland Renaissance Europe MITCHELL B. MERBACK 'Down With the Crown' British Anti-monarchism and Debates about Royalty since 1790 ANTONY TAYLOR The Jewish Self-Image American and British ...
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... painful, sometimes lethal. In such circumstances, small wonder that the medical profession elicited mixed feelings. Radicals in the Civil War era ( - ) held that healing had been perverted by the corrupt clique dominating ...
... painful, sometimes lethal. In such circumstances, small wonder that the medical profession elicited mixed feelings. Radicals in the Civil War era ( - ) held that healing had been perverted by the corrupt clique dominating ...
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... Pain for Pain' it might have been called – addressing life and death and enacted in styles and idioms that far transcended criteria of the narrowly technical and functional. It was also contested territory, fought over by physicians,
... Pain for Pain' it might have been called – addressing life and death and enacted in styles and idioms that far transcended criteria of the narrowly technical and functional. It was also contested territory, fought over by physicians,
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... pain was regarded as, in large measure, unspeakable, how were diseases to be made visible? And did revealing them defuse their threat or render them all the more menacing? Exploration of the depiction of therapies bares a further puzzle ...
... pain was regarded as, in large measure, unspeakable, how were diseases to be made visible? And did revealing them defuse their threat or render them all the more menacing? Exploration of the depiction of therapies bares a further puzzle ...
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... painful, shameful and potentially life-threatening situations. The chapters that follow explore such images, verbal and visual, within the wider context of representations at large. The Body Grotesque and Monstrous I love the ...
... painful, shameful and potentially life-threatening situations. The chapters that follow explore such images, verbal and visual, within the wider context of representations at large. The Body Grotesque and Monstrous I love the ...
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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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