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Progress and Pathology

Progress and Pathology Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century - Social Histories of Medicine

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Publisher's Synopsis

This volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century. With case studies from Britain, America, France, Germany, Finland, Bengal, China and the South Pacific, it demonstrates how popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were reframed by the social, cultural and political structures of 'modern life'. Chapters in the collection examine ways in which cancer, suicide and social degeneration were seen as products of the stresses and strains of 'new' ways of living. Others explore the legal, institutional and intellectual changes that contributed to modern medical practice. The volume traces how physiological and psychological problems were constituted in relation to each other and to their social contexts, offering new ways of contextualising the problems of modernity facing us in the twenty-first century. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, 'Good health and well-being'. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

About the Publisher

Manchester University Press

Founded in 1904, MUP is the third largest University Press in England and publishes monographs and textbooks by authors from all over the world. Currently publishing 145 new books a year and managing a portfolio of 14 journals as well as an extensive backlist of over 1000 titles, the Press sells more than 150,000 books each year to a global audience. The Press exports some 50 percent of output to more than 60 countries using representatives in Britain, Ireland and Europe and agents elsewhere including North America, Canada and Australia.

Book information

ISBN: 9781526133687
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.46109034
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 392
Weight: 584g
Height: 222mm
Width: 364mm
Spine width: 30mm