Cholera and nation
Subtitle: doctoring the social body in Victorian England
By: Pamela K. Gilbert.
Series: SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780791473436
Subjects: Cholera -- England -- History; Cholera -- Social aspects -- England -- History; Cholera -- England -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Cholera -- history -- England; Attitude to Health -- England; History, 19th Century -- England; Politics -- England; Public Health Practice -- history -- England; Religion and Medicine -- England
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A sinful nation: 1832; title: After 1832: medical authority and the clergy; title: A suffering nation: responses of the poor and radicals to the cholera; title: Medics and the public sphere; title: The changing body; title: Race, gender, and cholera; title: Narrating cholera and nation; title: Kingsley: nation, gender, and the body; title: Coda.