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Cholera and nation : doctoring the social body in Victorian England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilbert, Pamela K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]
Series:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Subjects:
Cholera > England > History.
Cholera > Social aspects > England > History.
Cholera > England > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Cholera > history.
Attitude to Health.
History, 19th Century.
Politics.
Public Health Practice > history.
Religion and Medicine.
Table of Contents:
  • A sinful nation: 1832
  • After 1832: medical authority and the clergy
  • A suffering nation: responses of the poor and radicals to the cholera
  • Medics and the public sphere
  • The body in question
  • Race, gender, and cholera
  • Narrating cholera and nation
  • Kingsley: nation, gender, and the body.