Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London

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 infe...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Newsom Kerr, Matthew (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2018.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.