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Brilliant, volatile and invariably male, the surgeon stereotype is
a widespread and instantly recognisable part of western culture.
Setting out to anatomise this stereotype, Cold, hard steel offers
an exciting new history of modern and contemporary British surgery.
The book draws on archival materials and original interviews with
surgeons, analysing them alongside a range of fictional depictions,
from the Doctor in the House novels to Mills & Boon romances
and the pioneering soap opera Emergency Ward 10. Presenting a
unique social, cultural and emotional history, it sheds light on
the development and maintenance of the surgical stereotype and
explains why it has proved so enduring. At the same time, the book
explores the more candid and compassionate image of the surgeon
that has begun to emerge in recent years, revealing how a series of
high-profile memoirs both challenge the surgical stereotype and
simultaneously confirm it. -- .
The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social
history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by
looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked
in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It
follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes
and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through
seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the
rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and
hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and
resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of
scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America. The
Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain argues
that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the
unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains
today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment,
and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book
reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine
and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and
incurable maladies, both past and present.
Work in all its guises is a fundamental part of the human
experience, and yet it is a setting where emotions rarely take
centre stage. This edited collection interrogates the troubled
relationship between emotion and work to shed light on the feelings
and meanings of both paid and unpaid labour from the late 19th to
the 21st century. Central to this book is a reappraisal of
'emotional labour', now associated with the household and 'life
admin' work largely undertaken by women and which reflects and
perpetuates gender inequalities. Critiquing this term, and the
history of how work has made us feel, Feelings and Work in Modern
History explores the changing values we have ascribed to our
labour, examines the methods deployed by workplaces to manage or
'administrate' our emotions, and traces feelings through 19th, 20th
and 21st century Europe, Asia and South America. Exploring the
damages wrought to physical and emotional health by certain
workplaces and practices, critiquing the pathologisation of some
emotional responses to work, and acknowledging the joy and meaning
people derive from their labour, this book appraises the notion of
'work-life balance', explores the changing notions of
professionalism and critically engages with the history of
capitalism and neo-liberalism. In doing so, it interrogates the
lasting impact of some of these histories on the current and future
emotional landscape of labour.
Work in all its guises is a fundamental part of the human
experience, and yet it is a setting where emotions rarely take
centre stage. This edited collection interrogates the troubled
relationship between emotion and work to shed light on the feelings
and meanings of both paid and unpaid labour from the late 19th to
the 21st century. Central to this book is a reappraisal of
‘emotional labour’, now associated with the household and
‘life admin’ work largely undertaken by women and which
reflects and perpetuates gender inequalities. Critiquing this term,
and the history of how work has made us feel, Feelings and Work in
Modern History explores the changing values we have ascribed to our
labour, examines the methods deployed by workplaces to manage or
‘administrate’ our emotions, and traces feelings through 19th,
20th and 21st century Europe, Asia and South America. Exploring the
damages wrought to physical and emotional health by certain
workplaces and practices, critiquing the pathologisation of some
emotional responses to work, and acknowledging the joy and meaning
people derive from their labour, this book appraises the notion of
‘work-life balance’, explores the changing notions of
professionalism and critically engages with the history of
capitalism and neo-liberalism. In doing so, it interrogates the
lasting impact of some of these histories on the current and future
emotional landscape of labour.
The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social
history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by
looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked
in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It
follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes
and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through
seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the
rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and
hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and
resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of
scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America. The
Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain argues
that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the
unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains
today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment,
and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book
reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine
and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and
incurable maladies, both past and present.
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