Review
Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, v 77(4), pp 954-955
01 Dec 2003
Abstract
A surprisingly accessible exponent of one of the newer flavors of cultural criticism, Erin O'Connor serves up four connected case studies of how cultural and literary images of pathology interacted in nineteenth-century Britain. [...]discourses posit," "figurations situate," and "pathology materialized a means of making and unmaking selves that neither presumed nor required a pathology" (this last quote, at p. 19). Rather, "instead of simply reading breast cancer's urban metaphors as signs of medicine's failure to be neutral, [one] reads those metaphors as the place where medicine actively constructed itself as neutral" (p. 100).
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- Title
- Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture
- Creators
- Russell Maulitz
- Publication Details
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine, v 77(4), pp 954-955
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press; Baltimore
- Resource Type
- Review
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Family (Community and Preventive) Medicine
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000187019900019
- Other Identifier
- 991019167952604721
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