Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London

Matthew Newsom Kerr

Springer International Publishing AG, 2017

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This book is a history of London’s vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Londoners suffering from infectious diseases submitted themselves to far-reaching forms of surveillance, removal, and detention, which made them legible to science and the state in entirely new ways.

ISBN-13
9783319657677
ISBN-10
3319657674
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Year
2017
Publication date
2017-10-27
Pages
370
Dimensions
219x157x29
Weight
632