By: Michael Sappol (Editor), Stephen P. Rice (Editor)

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A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural object. Volume 1: A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity (1300 BCE - 500 CE) Edited by Daniel Garrison, Northwestern University. Volume 2: A Cultural History of the Human Body in The Medieval Age (500 - 1500) Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University Volume 3: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance (1400 - 1650) Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University and William Bynum, University College London. Volume 4: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (1600 - 1800) Edited by Carole Reeves, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. Volume 5: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire (1800 - 1920) Edited by Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine in Washington, DC, and Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College of New Jersey. Volume 6: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Modern Age (1900-21st Century) Edited by Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh, and Chiara Beccalossi, University of Queensland. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: 1. Birth and Death 2. Health and Disease 3. Sex and Sexuality 4. Medical Knowledge and Technology 5. Popular Beliefs 6. Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal 7. Marked Bodies I: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability and Disease 8. Marked Bodies II: the Bestial, the Divine and the Natural 9. Cultural Representations of the Body 10. The Self and Society This means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on the human body through history.

Introduction: Empires in Bodies; Bodies in Empires Michael Sappol (National Library of Medicine, USA) 1 Birth and Death under the Sign of Thomas Malthus Thomas Laqueur (University of California, USA) and Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna College, USA) 2 Medical Perspectives on Health and Disease Michael Worboys (University of Manchester, UK) 3 Othering Sexual Perversity: England, Empire, Race, and Sexual Science Richard C. Sha (American University, USA) 4 Medical Science, Technology, and the Body Chandak Sengoopta (University of London, UK) 5 Popular Beliefs and the Body: "A Nation of Good Animals" Pamela K. Gilbert (University of Florida, USA) 6 The Normal, the Ideal, and the Beautiful: Perfect Bodies during the Age of Empire Michael Hau (Monash University, Australia) 7 Empire, Boundaries, and Bodies: Colonial Tattooing Practices Clare Anderson (University of Warwick, UK) 8 Smallpox, Vaccination, and the Marked Body Nadja Durbach (University of Utah, USA) 9 Picturing Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Stephen P. Rice (Ramapo College, USA) 10 From Mimetic Machines to Digital Organisms: The Transformation of the Human Motor Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University, USA) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

ISBN: 9781847887924
ISBN-10: 1847887929
Series: Cultural Histories
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 8th May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions (cm): 24.4 x 17.2  x 2.1
Weight (kg): 0.826