Anxious times: medicine and modernity in nineteenth-century Britain
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. Unh...
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh Press
[2019]
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| Series: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century
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| Online Access: | Aggregator, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780822945512.pdf
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| Author Notes: | Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, & Jennifer Wallis |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| ISBN: | 9780822945512 0822945517 |