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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Main Authors: Bonea, Amelia (Author), Dickson, Melissa (Of University of Birmingham) (Author), Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952- (Author), Wallis, Jennifer, 1983- (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Pittsburgh, PA. : University of Pittsburgh Press [2019]
סדרה:Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvk8w1tx
תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.