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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1007925722 Title: Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London. Author: Matthew Newsom Kerr Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017. ISBN/ISSN: 9783319657684 3319657682 OCLC:1007925722

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Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London.

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Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London.

Author:	Matthew Newsom Kerr
Publisher:	Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	A history of London's vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Unprecedented in size and scope, this public infrastructure inaugurated a new technology of disease prevention - isolation. Rich in archival sources and images, this engaging book offers innovative analysis at the intersection of preventive medicine and Victorian-era liberalism.
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Genre/Form:	Electronic books
Additional Physical Format:	Print version: Newsom Kerr, Matthew. Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London. Cham : Springer International Publishing, ©2017
Material Type:	Document, Internet resource
Document Type:	Internet Resource, Computer File
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ISBN:	9783319657684 3319657682
OCLC Number:	1007925722
Description:	1 online resource (380 pages)
Contents:	Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- Chapter 1 Isolation, Liberalism, Biopower -- Chapter 2 Victorian Plague Town: Quarantines, Hospitals, and the Political Birth of Isolation -- Spatializing the Fevers -- Sanitation Against Confinement -- Containment and Urban Crisis -- The Birth of Isolation -- Chapter 3 Persons Out of Place: Seclusion and Scandal in the Workhouse Hospital -- â#x80;#x9C;As Repulsive as Is Consistent with Humanityâ#x80;#x9D; -- â#x80;#x9C;A Disgrace to Our Civilisationâ#x80;#x9D Â#x80;#x9C;Frantic in the Excess of Vituperation and Execrative Expressionsâ#x80;#x9D;â#x80;#x9C;Completely in Their Powerâ#x80;#x9D; -- â#x80;#x9C;Unfit for Sick Menâ#x80;#x9D; -- â#x80;#x9C;He Was Only a Pauperâ#x80;#x9D; -- â#x80;#x9C;Not in Charity to Themselvesâ#x80;#x9D; -- Chapter 4 Sanitary Citizens: Masculinity, Consent, and Franchise -- The Pauper Disqualification in Householder Suffrage -- What Is a Pauper? -- The Poor Manâ#x80;#x99;s Spare Bedroom -- Governing Consent -- (En)Gendering Consent -- Franchise and the Medical Pauper -- Competing Governmentalities Chapter 5 Machines of Security: Architecture, Geography, and Metropolitan Governanceâ#x80;#x9C;The Worst Governed City in the Empireâ#x80;#x9D; -- Smallpox and Urban Spatial Crisis -- Afield and Afloat: Sites of Exception -- â#x80;#x9C;Vast Aggregations of Miseryâ#x80;#x9D; -- The â#x80;#x9C;Hospital Bogâ#x80;#x9D; -- A New Metropolitan Machinery -- â#x80;#x9C;A Powerful and Highly Efficient Organisationâ#x80;#x9D; -- Normalizing the Fevers -- The (Bio)Political Economy of Smallpox -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Drawing Circles Around Smallpox Hospitals: Cartography, Calculation, and Surveillance -- Losing Sight of Smallpox Narration and Number: Detection and SurveillanceCharting Smallpox -- Concentric Circles of Diseasedness -- Placing Infection â#x80;#x9C;at a Glanceâ#x80;#x9D; -- Denigration of the Detectiveâ#x80;#x99;s Eye -- Calculation and Representation -- â#x80;#x9C;Circles of Responsibilityâ#x80;#x9D; -- Making the Public Count: Surveillance and Mapping -- Population Visualizing Itself -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Isolation Within Isolation: The Public and Personal Politics of Hospital Infection -- The Great Confinement -- â#x80;#x9C;This Vile Treatmentâ#x80;#x9D;: Patients and Nurses Â#x80;#x9C;Where a Person Goes in with One Infectious Disease and Catches All the Restâ#x80;#x9D;Diphtheria: â#x80;#x9C;War on the Microbe Worldâ#x80;#x9D; -- Scarlet Fever: Enduring Infection -- â#x80;#x9C;Little Glass Housesâ#x80;#x9D; -- Barrier Nursing: The Body Technic -- Bed Isolation: Experiments and Experiences in Hygiene -- Conclusion -- References

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