Cholera and Nation : Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England

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Summary

How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
A Sinful and Suffering Nation
A Sinful Nation: 1832	p. 17
After 1832: Medical Authority and the Clergy	p. 29
A Suffering Nation: Responses of the Poor and Radicals to the Cholera	p. 50
Medics and Discourses of Cholera
Medics and the Public Sphere	p. 67
The Body in Question	p. 91
Race, Gender, and Cholera	p. 108
Writing Nation's Body
Narrating Cholera and Nation	p. 135
Kingsley: Nation, Gender, and the Body	p. 155
Notes	p. 189
Works Cited	p. 207
Index	p. 223
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