A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Empire

Jonathan Reinarz

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
17 October 2024

Social & cultural history; Colonialism & imperialism; History of medicine

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

Historians describe the ‘long 19th century’ as

an age of empire, characterized by expansion

and industrialization. The period witnessed

the evolution of Western medicine into

something uniquely ‘modern’, rooted in the

shift to industrial capitalism and encroachment

of government monitoring to state health,

as well as the colonial mindset that drove

overseas travel and encounters with unfamiliar

populations, climates and disease. More than

ever before, food, drugs, people and sickness

circumvented the globe, crossing borders

and prompting enormous changes in the

way people made sense of health and illness.

Novel technologies, from vaccination to

x-rays, and ways of organizing medicine and

its delivery, increased the reach of medicine

and augmented the power of the state and colonizers. Equally, the new medicine answered

governments’ growing recognition that health had acquired cultural value and meaning for their

domestic populations. Spanning the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume surveys the spatial,

experiential, visual and material cultures that shaped authority, mind and body, disease theories and

the growing integration of human and animal health.

These essays focus on the centrality of the state and hospitals, the growing importance of

controlled laboratory experimentation, statistical methods, medical specialization, as well as the

impact of war and peace on sick and injured bodies marked by notions of gender, race and class.

While documenting the rise of new medical paradigms, this volume also charts the ways in which

patients and populations have mediated, contested and shaped medical encounters, as well as the

meanings of health and illness. Together these chapters map the contours of recent trends and

trajectories in the cultural history of medicine and set an agenda for the self-reflexive critique of

medicine’s past in the future.

Edited by: Jonathan Reinarz
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 169mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350451612
ISBN 10: 1350451614
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 17 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roger Cooter is Wellcome Professorial Fellow at UCL Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UK.