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Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England

By: Mary Wilson Carpenter

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Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England

By: Mary Wilson Carpenter

This work offers a social and cultural history of Victorian medicine "from below," as experienced by ordinary practitioners and patients, often described in their own words. Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England is a human story of medicine in 19th-century England. It's a story of how a diverse and competitive assortment of apothecary apprentices, surgeons who learned their trade by doing, and physicians schooled in ancient Greek medicine but lacking in any actual experience with patients, was gradually formed into a medical profession with uniform standards of education and qualification. It's a story of how medical men struggled with "new" diseases such as cholera and "old" ones known for centuries, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and smallpox, largely in the absence of effective drugs or treatments, and so were often reduced to standing helplessly by as their patients died. It's a story of how surgeons, empowered first by anesthesia and later by antiseptic technique, vastly expanded the field of surgery—sometimes with major benefits for patients, but sometimes with disastrous results. Above all, it's a story of how gender and class ideology dominated both practitioners and patients. Women were stridently excluded from medical education and practice of any kind until the end of the century, but were hailed into the new field of nursing, which was felt to be "natural" to the gentler sex. Only the poor were admitted to hospitals until the last decades of the century, and while they often received compassionate care, they were also treated as "cases" of disease and experimented upon with freedom. Yet because medical knowledge was growing by leaps and bounds, Victorians were fascinated with this new field and wrote novels, poetry, essays, letters, and diaries, which illuminate their experience of health and disease for us. Newly developed techniques of photography, as well as improved print illustrations, help us to picture this fascinating world. This vivid history of Victorian medicine is enriched with many literary examples and visual images drawn from the period.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031306542X

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Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies

Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market

By: Mary Wilson Carpenter

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Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies

Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market

By: Mary Wilson Carpenter

Exploring the production and consumption of British commerical family bibles, this book sheds light on the history of women's sexuality, and the English view of such taboo subjects as same-sex relations, masturbation, menstruation and circumcision.

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Ohio University Press

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0821415158

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9780821415153

George Eliot and the Landscape of Time

Narrative Form and Protestant Apocalyptic History

By: Mary Wilson Carpenter

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George Eliot and the Landscape of Time

Narrative Form and Protestant Apocalyptic History

By: Mary Wilson Carpenter

Carpenter discusses apocalytptic narrative schemes in Romola, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and The Legend of Jubal. In the context of nineteenth-century British interpretation of the prophesies, this study reveals an unsuspected visionary poetics in Eliot's writings and demonstrates that her later works rewrite Protestant apocalyptics in both romantic and satiric styles, suggesting a new approach to Victorian narrative form. Originally published in 1986. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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1469640120

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Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England

By: Mary Wilson Carpenter

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Zooplankton of the Great Lakes

A Guide to the Identification and Ecology of the Common Crustacean Species

By: Mary D. Balcer,Nancy L. Korda,Stanley I. Dodson

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Zooplankton of the Great Lakes

A Guide to the Identification and Ecology of the Common Crustacean Species

By: Mary D. Balcer,Nancy L. Korda,Stanley I. Dodson

Researchers, instructors, and students will appreciate this compilation of detailed information on the crustacean zooplankton of the Great Lakes. The authors have gathered data from more than three hundred sources and organized into a useful laboratory manual. The taxonomic keys are easy to use, suitable for both classroom and laboratory identifications. Detailed line drawings are provided to help confirm the identification of the major species. Zoologists, limnologists, hydrobiologists, fish ecologists, and those who study or monitor water quality will welcome this dependable new identification tool. A concise summary of pertinent information on the ecology of these zooplankton is provided in the main body of the text. A check-list of all species reported from each of the Great Lakes and notes on the distribution and abundance of more than a hundred species were compiled from an extensive search of existing literature. In addition, the authors collected samples from several locations on Lake Superior, in order to provide information on the abundance and life histories of the major crustacean species.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299098206

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Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England

Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England

Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies

Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies

George Eliot and the Landscape of Time

George Eliot and the Landscape of Time

Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England

Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England

Zooplankton of the Great Lakes

Zooplankton of the Great Lakes

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