An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

Alison Bashford

Penguin Books, Ltd.

AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF EVOLUTION

Allen Lane.

Bashford (women's studies and history, U. of Sydney) looks at practitioners and patients of 19th-century medicine as embodied and sexed subjects. She applies current cultural and feminists theories to such questions as what cultural meanings were embodied by practitioners, how doctors thought of themselves as fleshly and tactile and as carrying or immune from contagion, and how nurses conceptualized and enacted cleanliness on their bodies and morals as well as their wards and homes. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (Studies in Gender History)

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Like medical knowledge and practice itself, most medical histories are fascinated with the bodies of patients. Bashford examines practitioners of medicine, as well as patients, as embodied and sexed subjects. She brings together recent cultural and feminist theories on the body, nineteenth-century medical history and the history of gender and Victorian feminism. Purity and Pollution is a cultural history which investigates the ways in which many different practitioners - male and female doctors, nurses, midwives, accoucheurs - were implicated in a discourse and a material practice inescapably about the pure and the polluted.

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine

St.Martin's Press

Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) was a geographer, anthropologist, and world explorer. His travels took him from Captain Scott's final expedition in Antarctica to every continent on earth, in a professional life that stretched from the Boer War to the Cold War. Taylor's research ranged from microscopic analysis of fossils to the ‘races of man,' the geographic basis of global politics, while his work as a professor led him from his Cambridge education to the Universities of Chicago and Sydney, as well as Harold A. Innis' recently-founded geography department in the University of Toronto.As a scientific secularist, Taylor made it his lifelong mission to enlighten the public on humankind's relation to the environment and was an early environmentalist. His progressive views on interracial marriage, as well as his criticisms of social Darwinist doctrines, anti-Semitism, and twentieth-century nationalism caused him to be constantly embroiled in controversy. Often dismissed by his contemporary political and intellectual opponents, many subsequent scientists and thinkers have come to regard his life as prophetic. This timely, beautifully produced, and copiously illustrated biography recounts and analyses the fascinating life of a remarkably contemporary man.

Griffith Taylor: Visionary Environmentalist Explorer

Carolyn Strange

Antipodes Books and Beyond, Ltd.

Quarantine: Local and Global Histories

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, great new carceral structures materialised, many surviving into the present as magnificent ruins or as 5 star hotels with a dark tourism edge. This book offers new histories and geographies of quarantine islands and isolation hospitals across the world, bringing their local and global pasts and present into view. An international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce. With case studies from as far afield as the Red Sea, Hong Kong and New Zealand, and from the early modern period forward, this book provides an invaluable insight into the history of quarantine.

World

Red Globe Press

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