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Pathological Bodies

Pathological Bodies

Medicine and Political Culture
Corinna Wagner, Pathological Bodies. Medicine and Political Culture, Berkeley, University of California Press, coll. « The Berkeley Series in British Studies », 2015, ISBN : 9780520289529.
Notice publiée le 06 octobre 2015

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book explores the important connections between medicine and political culture that often have been overlooked. In response to the French revolution and British radicalism, political propagandists adopted a scientific vocabulary and medical images for their own purposes. New ideas about anatomy and pathology, sexuality and reproduction, cleanliness and contamination, and diet and drink migrated into politics in often startling ways, and to significant effect. These ideas were used to identify individuals as normal or pathological, and as “naturally” suitable or unsuitable for public life. This migration has had profound consequences for how we measure the bodies, practices and abilities of public figures and ourselves.

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Auteur

Corinna Wagner

Corinna Wagner is Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter.

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