Contagion, isolation, and biopolitics in victorian london
Auteur :
Newsom Kerr, Matthew
Éditeur :
Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN :
9783319657677
Date de publication :
27 oct. 2017
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
This book is a history of London’s vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Londoners suffering from infectious diseases submitted themselves to far-reaching forms of surveillance, removal, and detention, which made them legible to science and the state in entirely new ways.