Contagion, isolation, and biopolitics in Victorian London / Matthew L. Newsom Kerr.

  • Newsom Kerr, Matthew L., 1974-
Date:
[2018]
  • Books

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Description

A history of London's vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Unprecedented in size and scope, this public infrastructure inaugurated a new technology of disease prevention - isolation. Rich in archival sources and images, this engaging book offers innovative analysis at the intersection of preventive medicine and Victorian-era liberalism.

Publication/Creation

[Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Physical description

xvii, 370 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

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Contents

1 Isolation, liberalism, biopower -- 2 Victorian plague town: quarantines, hospitals, and the political birth of isolation -- 3 Persons out of place: seclusion and scandal in the workhouse hospital -- 4 Sanitary citizens: masculinity, consent, and franchise -- 5 Machines of security: architecture, geography, and metropolitan governance -- 6 Drawing circles around smallpox hospitals: cartography, calculation, and surveillance -- 7 Isolation within isolation: the public and personal politics of hospital infection.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-366) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FF.43.AA8-9
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 3319657674
  • 9783319657677