Progress and pathology
This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were challenged, modified, and reframed by the politics and st...
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| description | This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were challenged, modified, and reframed by the politics and structures of ‘modern life’, understood in industrial, social, commercial, and technological terms. Bringing together work by leading international scholars, this volume demonstrates how a multiplicity of medical practices were organised around new and evolving definitions of the modern self. The study offers varying and culturally specific definitions of what constituted medical modernity for practitioners around the world in this period. Chapters examine the ways in which cancer, suicide, and social degeneration were seen as products of the stresses and strains of ‘new’ ways of living in the nineteenth century, and explore the legal, institutional, and intellectual changes that contributed to both positive and negative understandings of modern medical practice. The volume traces the ways in which physiological and psychological problems were being constituted in relation to each other, and to their social contexts, and offers new ways of contextualising the problems of modernity facing us in the twenty-first century. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-308162025-05-08T08:33:17Z Progress and pathology Dickson, Melissa Taylor-Brown, Emilie Shuttleworth, Sally history of medicine diseases of modern life global modernities medical modernity medicine and culture medicine and society pathologies of progress This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were challenged, modified, and reframed by the politics and structures of ‘modern life’, understood in industrial, social, commercial, and technological terms. Bringing together work by leading international scholars, this volume demonstrates how a multiplicity of medical practices were organised around new and evolving definitions of the modern self. The study offers varying and culturally specific definitions of what constituted medical modernity for practitioners around the world in this period. Chapters examine the ways in which cancer, suicide, and social degeneration were seen as products of the stresses and strains of ‘new’ ways of living in the nineteenth century, and explore the legal, institutional, and intellectual changes that contributed to both positive and negative understandings of modern medical practice. The volume traces the ways in which physiological and psychological problems were being constituted in relation to each other, and to their social contexts, and offers new ways of contextualising the problems of modernity facing us in the twenty-first century. 2021-02-10T13:45:12Z 2021-02-10T13:45:12Z 2020-04-20T12:05:11Z 2020 book OCN: 1240525024 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37338 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30816 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37338/1/9781526147547_fullhl.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37338/1/9781526147547_fullhl.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37338/1/9781526147547_fullhl.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37338/1/9781526147547_fullhl.pdf Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781526147547 10.7765/9781526147547 bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 FP7 Ideas: European Research Council 7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection 392 Manchester 340121 open access |
| spellingShingle | history of medicine diseases of modern life global modernities medical modernity medicine and culture medicine and society pathologies of progress Progress and pathology |
| title | Progress and pathology |
| title_full | Progress and pathology |
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| topic | history of medicine diseases of modern life global modernities medical modernity medicine and culture medicine and society pathologies of progress |
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