Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900Reaktion Books, Mar 8, 2021 - 328 pages In this historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease, and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions of the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. With these images in mind, he explores aspects of being ill alongside the practice of medicine, paying special attention to self-presentations by physicians, surgeons, and quacks, and to changes in practitioners’ public identities over time. Porter also examines the wider symbolic meanings of disease and doctoring and the “body politic.” Porter’s book is packed with outrageous and amusing anecdotes portraying diseased bodies and medical practitioners alike. |
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... Britain and the Great War JOANNA BOURKE The Feminine Ideal MARIANNE THESANDER The Destruction of Art Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution DARIO GAMBONI Trading Territories Mapping the Early Modern World JERRY BROTTON ...
... Britain and the Great War JOANNA BOURKE The Feminine Ideal MARIANNE THESANDER The Destruction of Art Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution DARIO GAMBONI Trading Territories Mapping the Early Modern World JERRY BROTTON ...
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... Britain by Butler & Tanner , Frome , Somerset British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Porter , Roy , 1946– Bodies politic - disease , death and doctors in Britain , 1650-1900.- ( Picturing history ) 1. Medicine - Great Britain ...
... Britain by Butler & Tanner , Frome , Somerset British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Porter , Roy , 1946– Bodies politic - disease , death and doctors in Britain , 1650-1900.- ( Picturing history ) 1. Medicine - Great Britain ...
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Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900 Roy Porter. The irascible fellow springing up from his chair to vindicate his pills is generally identified as the notorious Dr Jean Misaubin . He also crops up , it is believed , in the ...
Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900 Roy Porter. The irascible fellow springing up from his chair to vindicate his pills is generally identified as the notorious Dr Jean Misaubin . He also crops up , it is believed , in the ...
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Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900 Roy Porter. books may , in truth , be one of the blunders that have turned this fellow into a gloomy hypochondriac about to slit his throat . Indeed , medical writings themselves warned ...
Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900 Roy Porter. books may , in truth , be one of the blunders that have turned this fellow into a gloomy hypochondriac about to slit his throat . Indeed , medical writings themselves warned ...
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Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900 Roy Porter. then preparing an invasion . The body politic is rescued only by the return of her one - time chief physician , Pitt the Younger , represented booting Addington ( himself a ...
Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900 Roy Porter. then preparing an invasion . The body politic is rescued only by the return of her one - time chief physician , Pitt the Younger , represented booting Addington ( himself a ...
Contents
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3 The Body Healthy and Beautiful | 63 |
4 Imagining Disease | 89 |
Plate Section I | 97 |
5 Prototypes of Practitioners | 129 |
Plate Secton II | 177 |
8 Professional Problems | 209 |
9 The Medical Politician and the Body Politic | 229 |
10 VictorianDevelopments | 250 |
Afterword | 272 |
References | 276 |
Select Bibliography | 315 |
Photographic Acknowledgements | 318 |
Other editions - View all
Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 Roy Porter No preview available - 2001 |
Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 Roy Porter No preview available - 2014 |
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