Syphilis and Subjectivity From the Victorians to the Present /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Nixon, Kari (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Servitje, Lorenzo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Social medicine.; Human body-Social aspects.; Health promotion.; Medicine-History.; Medical Sociology.; Sociology of the Body.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; History of Medicine.

This book demystifies the cultural work of syphilis from the late nineteenth century to the present. By interrogating the motivations that engender habits of belief, thought, and conduct regarding the disease and notions of the self, this interdisciplinary volume investigates constructions of syphil...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction; Part I: Structuring Syphilis
• Kari Nixon and Lorenzo Servitje
• 1. Medical Mappings of Syphilis in the Late Nineteenth Century; Monika Pietrzak-Franger
• 2. Stigmatization, Syphilis, and Prostitution: The Discursive Construction of Sex Workers, Disease, and Feeblemindedness; J.L. Schatz
• 3. Marriage, Motherhood and the Future of the Race: Syphilis in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain; Joanne Townsend
• 4. Suspect Bodies, Suspect Milk: Milk Sharing, Wetnursing, and the Specter of Syphilis in the 21st Century; Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster and Shannon K. Carter
• Part II: Novel Infections
• 5. Not-So-Great Expectations: Pregnancy and Syphilis in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins; Livia Woods
• 6. Unspeakable Horror: Outing Syphilis in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Nicole Cosentino and Wendy Ryden
• 7. "Everybody Has it": Syphilis and the Human Condition in the Writings of Ernest Hemingway; Lisa Tyler.