Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London (eBook)

Matthew Newsom Kerr (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2018
XVII, 370 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-65768-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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. 

Matthew L. Newsom Kerr is Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University, USA. 

Inhalt

1. Isolation, Liberalism, Biopower2. The Victorian Plague Town3. Persons Out of Place: Seclusion and Scandal in the Workhouse Hospital4. Sanitary Citizens: Masculinity, Consent, and Franchise5. Machines of Security: Architecture, Geography, and Metropolitan Governance6. Drawing Circles around Smallpox Hospitals: Cartography, Calculation, and Surveillance7. Isolation Within Isolation: The Public and Personal Politics of Hospital Infection

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.10.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 370 p. 21 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 19th century disease control • biopolitics in Victorian England • cultural history of public health • government and surveillance in medicine • history of contagious disease • history of modern public health • hospitals in 19th and 20th century England • Metropolitan Asylums Board • smallpox hospitals • urban epistemology and governance • Victorian era medicine and health
• ISBN-10: 3-319-65768-2 / 3319657682
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-65768-4 / 9783319657684