Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London

Matthew Newsom Kerr (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XVII, 370 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-65767-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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.

"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)

Erscheinungsdatum	09.11.2017
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 370 p. 21 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	781 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
Schlagworte	19th century disease control • biopolitics in Victorian England • cultural history of public health • European History • government and surveillance in medicine • Historiography • History • History of Britain and Ireland • history of contagious disease • history of modern public health • History of Science • History: specific events & topics • History: specific events & topics • hospitals in 19th and 20th century England • Metropolitan Asylums Board • smallpox hospitals • Social & Cultural History • Social & cultural history • Social History • urban epistemology and governance • Urban History • Victorian era medicine and health
ISBN-10	3-319-65767-4 / 3319657674
ISBN-13	978-3-319-65767-7 / 9783319657677
Zustand	Neuware