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Rotten Bodies - Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Rotten Bodies - Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor
responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain
Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the
horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic
disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long
asserted that the bodies of the poor were especially prone to
generating and spreading contagious disease, and British doctors
and laypeople alike took those warnings to heart, guiding medical
ideas of class throughout the eighteenth century. Dense
congregations of the poor-in workhouses, hospitals, slums,
courtrooms, markets, and especially prisons-were rendered sites of
immense danger in the public imagination, and the fear that small
outbreaks might run wild became a profound cultural force.
Extensively researched, with a wide body of evidence, this book
offers a fascinating look at how class was constructed
physiologically and provides a new connection between the
seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and the ravages of plague and
cholera, respectively.
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