Progress and pathology Medicine and culture in the nineteenth century

This collaborative volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the long nineteenth century. During this period, popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were challenged, modified, and reframed by the politics and st...

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Other Authors: Dickson, Melissa (Editor), Taylor-Brown, Emilie (Editor), Shuttleworth, Sally (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2020
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