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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'. -- .
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