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Title:

A cultural history of the human body in the age of empire / edited by Michael Sappol and Stephen P. Rice.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academic,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Human body--History--History--19th century.
Human body--History--History--20th century.
Human body in popular culture--History--19th century.
Human body in popular culture--History--20th century.
Human body in popular culture.
Human body--Social aspects.
1800-1999
History.

Other Authors:

Sappol, Michael, editor.
Rice, Stephen P. (Stephen Patrick), 1963- editor.

Notes:

Originally published: Oxford : Berg Publishers, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-344) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : empires in bodies, bodies in empires / Anson Rabinbach. From mimetic machines to digital organisms : the transformation of the human motor / Thomas Laqueur and Lisa Cody -- Medical perspectives on health and disease / Michael Worboys -- Othering sexual perversity : England, empire, race, and sexual science / Richard C. Sha -- Medical science, technology, and the body / Chadak Sengoopta -- Popular beliefs and the body : "a nation of good animals" / Pamela K. Gilbert -- The normal, the ideal, and the beautiful : perfect bodies during the age of empire / Michael Hau -- Empire, boundaries, and bodies : colonial tattooing practices / Clare Anderson -- Smallpox, vaccination, and the marked body / Nadja Durbach -- Picturing bodies in the nineteenth century / Stephen P. Rice -- From mimetic machines to digital organisms : the transformation of the human motor / Anson Rabinbach.

Series:

A cultural history of the human body ; volume 5

ISBN:

1472554663
9781472554666

OCLC:

(OCoLC)857981455

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)