Imperial bodies in London : empire, mobility, and the making of British medicine, 1880-1914 / Kristin D. Hussey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hussey, Kristin D., author.

Series:

Science and culture in the nineteenth century.

Science and culture in the nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Medicine.

Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 273 p..)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

Summary:

How the Circulation of Tropical Bodies Changed Victorian Understandings of Race, Gender, Disease, and Climate.

Contents:

Conclusion. The Cosmopolitanism of Imperial Disease

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue. Imperial Bodies in the Museum

Introduction. Medicine and Empire in London

Part I. Disease, Environment, and the Ex-colonial at Home

Chapter 1. The Tropical Invalid's Liver: Climate, Health, and Reacclimatization

Chapter 2. The "Indian Insane's" Brain: Making Sunstroke Insanity

Part II. Networks, Mobility, and Knowing Medicine at a Distance

Chapter 3. Empire of the Eye: Race, Expertise, and the (Im)Mobilities of Cataract Surgery

Chapter 4. "Something in his blood": Patrick Manson's Networks of Tropical Disease

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822946861

0822946866

OCLC:

1273972194