Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London

• Main Author: Newsom Kerr, Matthew (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; History.; Cities and towns-History.; Social history.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Science.; Urban History.; Social History.

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...

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.