Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. viii, 231 p.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Subject

1. Cholera > England > History
2. Cholera > Social aspects > History. > England
3. Cholera > England > Religious aspects > Christianity
4. Cholera > history > England
5. Attitude to Health > England
6. History, 19th Century > England
7. Politics > England
8. Public Health Practice > history > England
9. Religion and Medicine > England

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 08-7094

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-221) and index.

Author

1. Gilbert, Pamela K.

Title

1. Cholera and nation : doctoring the social body in Victorian England / Pamela K. Gilbert.

Imprint

1. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Series

1. SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-221) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

LCCN

1. 2007014883

ISBN

1. 9780791473436
2. 0791473430

Research call number

1. JFE 08-7094