In the age of empire

Author(s)

• Sappol, Michael
• Rice, Stephen P. (Stephen Patrick)

Bibliographic Information

In the age of empire

edited by Michael Sappol and Stephen P. Rice

（A cultural history of the human body / general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum, v. 5）

Berg, 2010

English ed

Other Title

A cultural history of the human body in the age of empire

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-344) and index

Contents of Works

• Introduction : empires in bodies; bodies in empires / Michael Sappol
• Birth and death under the sign of Thomas Malthus / 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 / Chandak 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

Details

• NCID: BB03291308
• ISBN:
  • 9781847887924
• LCCN: 2010502609
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford, UK
• Pages/Volumes: x, 355 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HM636
  • NLM : HM 636
  • DC22 : 306.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Human body -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Human body in popular culture
  • MESH : Human Body
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB03288857