Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Volume 44
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1862-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Volume 44 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture acknowledges recent changes in the field of eighteenth-century studies while reaffirming SECC’s commitment to interdisciplinary approaches that unite the wide array of fields in history, literature, art history, women’s and gender studies, political science, musicology, dance, theater, and religious studies. With contributions from Kelly E. Battles, Adam R. Beach, Samara Anne Cahill, Jonathan Blake Fine, Lucas Hardy, Julie Candler Hayes, Paul Kelleher, Rachael Scarborough King, Heidi E. Kraus, Teresa Michals, Andrew M. Pisano, and Yann Robert, this collection of essays highlights new research in disability studies, debates on slavery and literary history, and analyses of literary genre and form.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burnham, Michelle

Bannet, Eve Tavor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
1. Health and Disease in a Land New to Europeans
2. Traditional Treatment and Traditional Healers
3. The Beginnings of Change in Traditional Health Care
4. Setting the Stage for Modern Medicine and Health, 1850s to 1880s
Part II
5. The Age of Surgery and Germ Theory, 1880s to 1910s
6. Physiological Medicine, 1910s to 1930s
7. Physicians, Public Health, and Progressivism
8. The Era of Antibiotics, 1930s to 1950s
Part III
9. The Age of Technological Medicine, 1940s to 1960s
10. Doctors, Patients, Medical Institutions, and Society in the Age of Technological Medicine
11. Medicine in the Environmental Era, 1960s to 1980s
12. Environmental-Era Health Care in a Hostile Social Climate
Part IV
13. The Era of Genetic Medicine, Late 1980s and After
14. The Recent Past as a New Epoch
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Burnham, Michelle
Michelle Burnham is a professor of English at Santa Clara University. She is author of Folded Selves: Colonial American Writing in the World System and editor of A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson.

Bannet, Eve Tavor
Eve Tavor Bannet is the George Lynn Cross Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720–1810: Migrant Fictions and the coeditor of Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660–1830.

Michelle Burnham is a professor of English at Santa Clara University. She is author of Folded Selves: Colonial American Writing in the World System and editor of A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson. Eve Tavor Bannet is a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading: Migrant Fictions 1720–1810 and co-editor of Transatlantic Literary Studies 1660–1830.