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OverviewThis book is 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. Londoners suffering from infectious diseases submitted themselves to far-reaching forms of surveillance, removal, and detention, which made them legible to science and the state in entirely new ways. Isolation on a mass scale transformed the meaning of urban epidemics and introduced contentious new relationships between health, citizenship, and the spaces of modern governance. Rich in archival sources and images, this engaging book offers innovative analysis at the intersection of preventive medicine and Victorian-era liberalism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew Newsom KerrPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2018 Weight: 6.014kg ISBN: 9783319657677ISBN 10: 3319657674 Pages: 370 Publication Date: 27 October 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Isolation, Liberalism, Biopower.- 2. The Victorian Plague Town.- 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.ReviewsContagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London will appeal to readers in a range of disciplines, including urban history, medical geography, history of medicine, political history, and social history. It is a compelling, well-written book that makes a particularly strong contribution to the histories of epidemiology and smallpox. Above all, it is a chilling reminder of the importance of place in public health. (Annmarie Adams, Technology and Culture, Vol. 61 (1), 2020) “Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London will appeal to readers in a range of disciplines, including urban history, medical geography, history of medicine, political history, and social history. It is a compelling, well-written book that makes a particularly strong contribution to the histories of epidemiology and smallpox. Above all, it is a chilling reminder of the importance of place in public health.” (Annmarie Adams, Technology and Culture, Vol. 61 (1), 2020) Author InformationMatthew L. Newsom Kerr is Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |