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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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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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.