Bodies politic : disease, death, and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 /

Bodies politic : disease, death, and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Series:Picturing history series.
Subjects:
Medicine > Great Britain > History.
Physicians > Great Britain > History.
Death > Great Britain > History.
History of Medicine > Great Britain.
Medicine in Art > Great Britain.
Death > Great Britain.
Physicians > history > Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory : framing the picture
  • The body grotesque and monstrous
  • The body healthy and beautiful
  • Imagining disease
  • Prototypes of practitioners
  • Profiles of patients
  • Outsiders and intruders
  • Professional problems
  • The medical politician and the body politic
  • Victorian developments.