{"product_id":"9781472569899-cultural-history-of-medicine-in-the-age-of-empire","title":"A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Empire","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorians describe the ‘long 19th century’ as  an age of empire, characterized by expansion  and industrialization. The period witnessed  the evolution of Western medicine into  something uniquely ‘modern’, rooted in the  shift to industrial capitalism and encroachment  of government monitoring to state health,  as well as the colonial mindset that drove  overseas travel and encounters with unfamiliar  populations, climates and disease. More than  ever before, food, drugs, people and sickness  circumvented the globe, crossing borders  and prompting enormous changes in the  way people made sense of health and illness.  Novel technologies, from vaccination to  x-rays, and ways of organizing medicine and  its delivery, increased the reach of medicine  and augmented the power of the state and colonizers. Equally, the new medicine answered  governments’ growing recognition that health had acquired cultural value and meaning for their  domestic populations. Spanning the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume surveys the spatial,  experiential, visual and material cultures that shaped authority, mind and body, disease theories and  the growing integration of human and animal health. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese essays focus on the centrality of the state and hospitals, the growing importance of  controlled laboratory experimentation, statistical methods, medical specialization, as well as the  impact of war and peace on sick and injured bodies marked by notions of gender, race and class.  While documenting the rise of new medical paradigms, this volume also charts the ways in which  patients and populations have mediated, contested and shaped medical encounters, as well as the  meanings of health and illness. Together these chapters map the contours of recent trends and  trajectories in the cultural history of medicine and set an agenda for the self-reflexive critique of  medicine’s past in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40737765032033,"sku":"9781472569899","price":91.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27296140.jpg?v=1743513526","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472569899-cultural-history-of-medicine-in-the-age-of-empire","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}