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. |
Från bokens innehåll
Resultat 1-5 av 55
Sida 10
... practices, teachings about the body in sickness and in health; but I had confined myself to texts. What, I now pondered, would images reveal? Would they illustrate and reinforce the standard stories? Or suggest alternative or ...
... practices, teachings about the body in sickness and in health; but I had confined myself to texts. What, I now pondered, would images reveal? Would they illustrate and reinforce the standard stories? Or suggest alternative or ...
Sida 12
... practices and aesthetic expectations, governed by moral tropes and comic conventions, to be approached hermeneutically ... practice of art itself to those more trained than I and blessed with a better eye. My interest in visual material ...
... practices and aesthetic expectations, governed by moral tropes and comic conventions, to be approached hermeneutically ... practice of art itself to those more trained than I and blessed with a better eye. My interest in visual material ...
Sida 17
... practices and mystifications of his own profession and aspired to 'lay open' medicine to all, espousing a bold medical populism as his contribution to democratic knowledge and the rights of man. For far too long had healing been ...
... practices and mystifications of his own profession and aspired to 'lay open' medicine to all, espousing a bold medical populism as his contribution to democratic knowledge and the rights of man. For far too long had healing been ...
Sida 20
... practices in turn supply metaphorical commentary upon the wider worlds of politics and the body politic? Major developments in health and society were making such issues matters of moment. In the early modern centuries no one could ...
... practices in turn supply metaphorical commentary upon the wider worlds of politics and the body politic? Major developments in health and society were making such issues matters of moment. In the early modern centuries no one could ...
Sida 22
... practice, the College's oligarchy, critics avowed, was blocking newer, better, or cheaper approaches to healing ... practices to be respected – or reviled – for their theatrical, spectacular and even magical aspects, procedures perhaps ...
... practice, the College's oligarchy, critics avowed, was blocking newer, better, or cheaper approaches to healing ... practices to be respected – or reviled – for their theatrical, spectacular and even magical aspects, procedures perhaps ...
Innehåll
8 | |
9 | |
15 | |
35 | |
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 |
Andra upplagor - Visa alla
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 |
Vanliga ord och fraser
anatomy apothecary Bath blood Britain British Cambridge captioning Caricature cartoon Chapter Christopher Lawrence College of Physicians coloured etching comic Cruikshank culture Death depicted disease dissection doctors Dorothy Porter E. P. Thompson Eighteenth Century English engraving Enlightenment Erasmus Darwin Essays etching with watercolour fashionable female Fiction flesh G. S. Rousseau George Cheyne George Cruikshank Georgian Gout Harmondsworth Haslam Haven healing History Hogarth to Rowlandson Hospital humour idem Ihid illus James Gillray John Bull Lady Letters London Lord Malady Mary Medicine mind moral Nature novel ofthe pain physic physician Pills political popular portrait practice practitioners profession professional Punch quack reads Renaissance representations Richard Robert Roy Porter Royal College Samuel Samuel Garth satire Science sexual Shandy sick Social Society Steven Shapin surgeon teeth theatre Thomas Beddoes Thomas Rowlandson Victorian vols London vols Oxford W. F. Bynum William Hunter women Woodward York