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This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century.
List of contents
Introduction - Melissa Dickson, Emilie Taylor-Brown, and Sally Shuttleworth
Part I: Constructing the modern self
1 Revolutionary shocks: the French human sciences and the crafting of modern subjectivity, 1794-1816 - Laurens Schlicht
2 Medical negligence in nineteenth-century Germany - Torsten Riotte
3 Imperfect bodies: the 'pathology' of childhood in late nineteenth-century London - Steven Taylor
4 Phrenology as neurodiversity: the Fowlers and modern brain disorder - Kristine Swenson
Part II: Paradoxes of modern living
5 A disease-free world: the hygienic utopia in Jules Verne, Camille Flammarion, and William Morris - Manon Mathias
6 'Drooping with the century': fatigue and the
fin de siècle - Steffan Blayney
7 'A rebellion of the cells': cancer, modernity, and decline in
fin-de-siècle Britain - Agnes Arnold-Forster
8 The curse and the gift of modernity in late nineteenth-century suicide discourse in Finland - Mikko Myllykangas
Part III: Negotiating global modernities
9 From physiograms to cosmograms: Daktar Binodbihari Ray Kabiraj and the metaphorics of the nineteenth-century Ayurvedic body - Projit Bihari Mukharji
10 From Schenectady to Shanghai: Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and the hybrid pathways of Chinese modernity - Alice Tsay
11 Poisonous arrows and unsound minds: hysterical tetanus in the Victorian South Pacific - Daniel Simpson
Part IV: Reflections and provocation
12 What is your
complaint? Health as moral economy in the long nineteenth century - Christopher Hamlin
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Melissa Dickson is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Birmingham, and was formerly a Postdoctoral researcher on the Diseases of Modern Life project at St Anne's College, Oxford
Emilie Taylor-Brown is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Diseases of Modern Life project at St Anne's College, Oxford
Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford
Summary
This book examines the correlations being drawn between notions of progress and pathology across a range of socio-economic cultures in the long nineteenth century. -- .
