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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... Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, I65o—I9oo Roy Porter 'For Physic and Farces, His equal there scarce is, His Farces are Physic, His Physic a Farce is.' DAVID GARRICK (attrib.) describing a quack Bodies Politic. Bodies Politic Cover.
... Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, I65o—I9oo Roy Porter 'For Physic and Farces, His equal there scarce is, His Farces are Physic, His Physic a Farce is.' DAVID GARRICK (attrib.) describing a quack Bodies Politic. Bodies Politic Cover.
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... edition of my account of that subject, recently published under the new title of Quacks: Fakers and Charlatans in English Medicine. William Hogarth,A Harlot's Progress, pl. , , engraving with etching. Next.
... edition of my account of that subject, recently published under the new title of Quacks: Fakers and Charlatans in English Medicine. William Hogarth,A Harlot's Progress, pl. , , engraving with etching. Next.
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... quack? Or Dr Richard Rock, as most suppose, partly on the grounds that, to the right, atop the coal scuttle by the ... quacks, who in turn knew how to get their names about. The irascible fellow springing up from his chair to ...
... quack? Or Dr Richard Rock, as most suppose, partly on the grounds that, to the right, atop the coal scuttle by the ... quacks, who in turn knew how to get their names about. The irascible fellow springing up from his chair to ...
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... quack, but the grotesquely conceited Misaubin – in TomJones Henry Fielding tells us that 'he used to say that the proper direction to him was, “To Dr Misaubin, in the World”' – was in fact a 'regular' physician, a French university ...
... quack, but the grotesquely conceited Misaubin – in TomJones Henry Fielding tells us that 'he used to say that the proper direction to him was, “To Dr Misaubin, in the World”' – was in fact a 'regular' physician, a French university ...
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... Quacks; or, Britannia dying.' You take it? Very well. There you see her stretched along on a pallet; you may know she is Britannia, by the shield and spear at the head of her bed. Very plain; for all ...
... Quacks; or, Britannia dying.' You take it? Very well. There you see her stretched along on a pallet; you may know she is Britannia, by the shield and spear at the head of her bed. Very plain; for all ...
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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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