Regenerating England : science, medicine and culture in inter-war Britain / edited by Christopher Lawrence and Anna-K. Mayer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawrence, Christopher, 1947- editor.

Mayer, Anna-K., editor.

Series:

Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 60.

Clio Medica ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Social aspects--Great Britain--20th century.

Public health--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Medicine--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 316 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2000

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Atlanta, Georgia : Rodopi, 2000.

Summary:

In the inter-war years there was much debate in Britain as to whether the best path to post-World War I regeneration would be found in the promises of science and technology, in continued and increased efficiency, in specialization and professionalization or whether the future of the nation depended on a rediscovery of older (and more authentic) ways of doing things, on a defiant anti-modernism. This debate on Britain's future was often conducted in terms of Englishness and the rebirth of a lost, more spiritual, village England. However, ‘Englishness' also entered inter-war social thinking through eclectic assimilations of diverse traditions. Prominent themes in the discourses on Britain's post-war regeneration include national character, citizenship, fitness, education, utopia, community and so on. The chapters in the present volume address these themes and break new ground by examining debates well known in political and literary history through their relations to science, medicine, architecture and ideas of social and political ‘health'.

Contents:

Regenerating England: An Introduction / Christopher Lawrence and Anna-K. Mayer

H.V.Morton’s English Utopia / Michael Bartholomew

Edward Jenner’s Jockey Boots and the Great Tradition in English Medicine 1918–1939 / Christopher Lawrence

‘A combative sense of duty’: Englishness and the Scientists / Anna-K. Mayer

‘The shell of a prosperous age’: History, Landscape and the Modern in Paul Rotha’s The Face of Britain (1935) / Timothy Boon

‘Enriching and enlarging the whole sphere of human activities’: The Work of the Voluntary Sector in Housing Reform in Inter-War Britain / Elizabeth Darling

A Healthy Society for Future Intellectuals: Developing Student Life at Civic Universities / Keith Vernon

Potential For Participation: Health Centres and the Idea of Citizenship c.1920-1940 / Abigail Beach

Constituting Citizenship: Mental Deficiency,Mental Health and Human Rights in Inter-war Britain / Mathew Thomson

The Biopolitics of Arthur Keith and Morley Roberts / Rhodri Hayward

‘Not a domestic utensil but a woman and a citizen’: Stella Browne on Women, Health and Society / Lesley A. Hall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-33334-7

OCLC:

45615002

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004333345 DOI