Search results for ""Author Melissa Dickson""
Edinburgh University Press Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain
£85.00
Edinburgh University Press Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Dickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture.
£20.99
Manchester University Press Progress and Pathology: Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
This volume explores changing perceptions of health and disease in the context of the burgeoning global modernities of the nineteenth century. With case studies from Britain, America, France, Germany, Finland, Bengal, China and the South Pacific, it demonstrates how popular and medical understandings of the mind and body were reframed by the social, cultural and political structures of ‘modern life’. Chapters in the collection examine ways in which cancer, suicide and social degeneration were seen as products of the stresses and strains of ‘new’ ways of living. Others explore the legal, institutional and intellectual changes that contributed to modern medical practice. The volume traces how physiological and psychological problems were constituted in relation to each other and to their social contexts, offering new ways of contextualising the problems of modernity facing us in the twenty-first century.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, 'Good health and well-being'.
£26.96
