Bodily Matters - The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 18531907

Informationen zum Autor Nadja Durbach is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Klappentext Considers the Victorian anti-vaccination movement in the context of debates over citizenship, parental rights, class politics, the significance of bodily integrity, the control of contagious disease, and state access to the bodies of both adult and infant Zusammenfassung Considers the Victorian anti-vaccination movement in the context of debates over citizenship, parental rights, class politics, the significance of bodily integrity, the control of contagious disease, and state access to the bodies of both adult and infant subjects Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Parliamentary Lancet 13 2. Fighting the “Babies’ Battle” 37 3. Populism, Citizenship, and the Politics of Victorian Liberalism 69 4. The Body Politics of Class Formation 91 5. Vampires, Vivisectors, and the Victorian Body 113 6. Germs, Dirt, and the Constitution 150 7. Class, Gender, and the Conscientious Objector 171 Conclusion 199 Notes 209 Bibliography 243 Index 269

Product details

• Authors: Nadja Durbach
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2004
• EAN: 9780822334125
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3412-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Radical Perspectives
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General