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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... the rescue of a computer illiterate. My thanks also to Helen Kemp, who proved an excellent copy-editor, and to Jane Henderson for the index. Preface This book arose out of a flash of professional Acknowledgements.
... the rescue of a computer illiterate. My thanks also to Helen Kemp, who proved an excellent copy-editor, and to Jane Henderson for the index. Preface This book arose out of a flash of professional Acknowledgements.
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... professional awakening some years ago. Having been a historian all my working life, it dawned upon me that I had never seriously examined images or grappled with visual evidence. Though shocking, the belatedness of my recognition of ...
... professional awakening some years ago. Having been a historian all my working life, it dawned upon me that I had never seriously examined images or grappled with visual evidence. Though shocking, the belatedness of my recognition of ...
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... professionals: if they can't even read a print, why should anyone feel confident doctors can diagnose a disease? How absurd that this crew of short-sighted and self-righteous wranglers should plume themselves for being sage statesmen ...
... professionals: if they can't even read a print, why should anyone feel confident doctors can diagnose a disease? How absurd that this crew of short-sighted and self-righteous wranglers should plume themselves for being sage statesmen ...
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... professional identities were taking their place? And what about quacks – the regulars' Waterloo or envy, those medical entrepreneurs who, albeit subject to non-stop vilification, nevertheless exerted enviable control over the mass ...
... professional identities were taking their place? And what about quacks – the regulars' Waterloo or envy, those medical entrepreneurs who, albeit subject to non-stop vilification, nevertheless exerted enviable control over the mass ...
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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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