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Anxious times : medicine and modernity in nineteenth-century Britain /
Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth centur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, PA. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "The Influence of Employments on Health": Work and Medical Discourses about Occupational Health; 2. Technologies of Modernity: Telegraphs, Telephones, and Medical Practice in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; 3. Unhealthy Economies: Illness and Infection in British Coastal Resorts; 4. The Woman Secret Drinker in the Late Nineteenth-Century Press; 5. Knocking Some Sense into Them: Overpressure Debates and the Education of Mind and Body
- 6. Bringing Them Up to Speed: Nineteenth-Century Nervous Systems and Cultural Fantasies of AdaptationConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index