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  title info:
    title: Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London
  name:
    name part: Newsom Kerr, Matthew.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 370 p. 21 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Matthew Newsom Kerr.
  subject:
    topic: Great Britain-History
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns-History
  subject:
    topic: Social history
  subject:
    topic: History of Britain and Ireland
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Urban History
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  classification: DA1-995
  classification: 941
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319657684
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65768-4
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    record creation date: 171012
    record change date: 20191024001653.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-65768-4