Format:
vii, 312 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780822945512
,
0822945517
Series Statement:
Science and culture in the nineteenth century
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "The Influence of Employments on Health": Work and Medical Discourses about Occupational Health -- 2. Technologies of Modernity: Telegraphs, Telephones, and Medical Practice in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 3. Unhealthy Economies: Illness and Infection in British Coastal Resorts -- 4. The Woman Secret Drinker in the Late Nineteenth-Century Press -- 5. Knocking Some Sense into Them: Overpressure Debates and the Education of Mind and Body -- 6. Bringing Them Up to Speed: Nineteenth-Century Nervous Systems and Cultural Fantasies of Adaptation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Language:
English
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Zivilisationskrankheit
;
Medizin
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Author information:
Shuttleworth, Sally 1952-