Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London

Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London

Newsom Kerr, Matthew

Springer International Publishing AG

10/2017

370

Dura

Inglês

9783319657677

15 a 20 dias

6014

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1. Isolation, Liberalism, Biopower.- 2. The Victorian Plague Town.- 3. Persons Out of Place: Seclusion and Scandal in the Workhouse Hospital.- 4. Sanitary Citizens: Masculinity, Consent, and Franchise.- 5. Machines of Security: Architecture, Geography, and Metropolitan Governance.- 6. Drawing Circles around Smallpox Hospitals: Cartography, Calculation, and Surveillance.- 7. Isolation Within Isolation: The Public and Personal Politics of Hospital Infection.
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history of modern public health;urban epistemology and governance;Victorian era medicine and health;hospitals in 19th and 20th century England;government and surveillance in medicine;history of contagious disease;biopolitics in Victorian England;cultural history of public health;19th century disease control;Metropolitan Asylums Board;smallpox hospitals