Mapping the Victorian social body / Pamela K. Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Pamela K.

Series:

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical geography--Great Britain--History--19th century--Maps.

Medical geography.

Cartography--Great Britain--History--19th century--Maps.

Cartography.

Cholera--India--History--19th century--Maps.

Cholera.

AIDS (Disease)--Africa--Maps.

AIDS (Disease).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.

Contents:

Intro

Mapping the Victorian Social Body

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART I: Introductory

1. Mapping and Social Space in Nineteenth-Century England

PART II: Mapping Disease in the Metropole

2. Visible at a Glance: English Sanitary and Medical Maps

3. Invisible to the Naked Eye: John Snow

PART III: Narrating Metropolitan Space

4. A Tale of Two Parishes: Place and Narrative in the London Cholera Epidemic of 1854

5. Medical Mapping, the Thames, and the Body in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend

PART IV: Mapping the Body of Empire

6. India in the 1830s: Mapping from the Professional Periphery

7. India in the 1860s: Mapping Imperial Difference

AFTERWORD: Still Visible Today

NOTES

CHAPTER 1. MAPPING AND SOCIAL SPACE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

CHAPTER 2. VISIBLE AT A GLANCE: ENGLISH SANITARY AND MEDICAL MAPS

CHAPTER 3. INVISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE: JOHN SNOW

CHAPTER 4. A TALE OF TWO PARISHES: PLACE AND NARRATIVE IN THE LONDON CHOLERA EPIDEMIC OF 1854

CHAPTER 5. MEDICAL MAPPING, THE THAMES, AND THE BODY IN DICKENS'S OUR MUTUAL FRIEND

CHAPTER 6. INDIA IN THE 1830s: MAPPING FROM THE PROFESSIONAL PERIPHERY

CHAPTER 7. INDIA IN THE 1860s: MAPPING IMPERIAL DIFFERENCE

AFTERWORD: STILL VISIBLE TODAY

WORKS CITED

INDEX

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8533-1

1-4175-7584-0

OCLC:

62734666