Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book is a history of London's vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Unprecedented in size and scope, this public infrastructure inaugurated a new technology of disease...
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This book is a history of London's vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Unprecedented in size and scope, this public infrastructure inaugurated a new technology of disease prevention-isolation. Londoners suffering from infectious diseases submitted themselves to far-reaching forms of surveillance, removal, and detention, which made them legible to science and the state in entirely new ways. Isolation on a mass scale transformed the meaning of urban epidemics and introduced contentious new relationships between health, citizenship, and the spaces of modern governance. Rich in archival sources and images, this engaging book offers innovative analysis at the intersection of preventive medicine and Victorian-era liberalism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London “
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.
Autoren-Porträt von Matthew Newsom Kerr
Matthew L. Newsom Kerr is Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University, USA.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Matthew Newsom Kerr
- 2017, 1st ed. 2018, XVII, 370 Seiten, 1 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319657674
- ISBN-13: 9783319657677
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London will appeal to readers in a range of disciplines, including urban history, medical geography, history of medicine, political history, and social history. It is a compelling, well-written book that makes a particularly strong contribution to the histories of epidemiology and smallpox. Above all, it is a chilling reminder of the importance of place in public health." (Annmarie Adams, Technology and Culture, Vol. 61 (1), 2020)
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