Pathological Bodies : Medicine and Political Culture
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Berkeley Series in British Studies
ISBN-10
0520289528
ISBN-13
9780520289529
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 9th, 2015
Print length
258 Pages
Weight
506 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 22.90 x 2.60 cms
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In response to the French revolution and British radicalism, political propagandists adopted a scientific vocabulary and medical images for their own purposes. This book explores the connection between medicine and political culture that often have been overlooked.
This book explores the important connections between medicine and political culture that often have been overlooked. In response to the French revolution and British radicalism, political propagandists adopted a scientific vocabulary and medical images for their own purposes. New ideas about anatomy and pathology, sexuality and reproduction, cleanliness and contamination, and diet and drink migrated into politics in often startling ways, and to significant effect. These ideas were used to identify individuals as normal or pathological, and as "naturally" suitable or unsuitable for public life. This migration has had profound consequences for how we measure the bodies, practices and abilities of public figures and ourselves.
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