Anxious times : medicine and modernity in nineteenth-century Britain /
Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth centur...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Pittsburgh, PA. :
University of Pittsburgh Press
[2019]
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| Collection: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvk8w1tx |
Table des matières:
- Introduction
- "The influence of employments on health" : work and medical discourses about occupational health
- Technologies of modernity : telegraphs, telephones, and medical practice in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Unhealthy economies : illness and infection in British coastal resorts
- The woman secret drinker in the late nineteenth-century press
- Knocking some sense into them : overpressure debates and the education of mind and body
- Bringing them up to speed : nineteenth-century nervous systems and cultural fantasies of adaptation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.