A cultural history of the human body in the Age of Empire / Michael Sappol and Stephen P. Rice (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sappol, Michael.

Rice, Stephen P. (Stephen Patrick), 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--History.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 346 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.

Summary:

"The "long nineteenth century" was an age of empire and empire builders, of state formation and expansion, and of colonial and imperial wars and conquest throughout most of the world. It was also an age that saw enormous changes in how people gave meaning to and made sense of the human body. Spanning the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume takes up a host of topics in the cultural history of the human body, including the rise of modern medicine and debates about vaccination, the representation of sexual perversity, developments in medical technology and new conceptions of bodily perfection. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns

ISBN:

9781350049765 (online)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.