Rotten bodies : class and contagion in eighteenth-century Britain /

Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especially prone to generating and spreading contagious...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siena, Kevin Patrick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Temas:
1700-1799
Poor > Health and hygiene > Great Britain.
Social classes > Health aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Plague > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Pauvres > Santé et hygiène > Grande-Bretagne.
Peste > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Modern > 18th Century.
Plague > Social aspects
Poor > Health and hygiene
Social classes > Health aspects
Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Plague, Putrefaction, and the Poor
  • 2. Reframing Plague after 1666
  • 3. Prisons, Debtors, and Disease in the Early Eighteenth Century
  • 4. Jail Fever Comes of Age
  • 5. Jail Fever and Prison Reform: London, 1750-1789
  • 6. Braving Contagion: John Howard and Ordinary Men
  • 7. Typhus Ever After
  • Conclusion: Plebeian and Other Bodies.

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