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Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
By Kevin Siena
Hardcover
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By Kevin Siena
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A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain
“This work will be required reading in fields of research that do not often overlap such as the histories of medical thought, histories of crime and penal policy, historians of the body, and those of social structure. All will find it highly engaging and thought-provoking, a book about putrescence, confinement, and contagion that offers a conceptual breath of fresh a...
“This work will be required reading in fields of research that do not often overlap such as the histories of medical thought, histories of crime and penal policy, historians of the body, and those of social structure. All will find it highly engaging and thought-provoking, a book about putrescence, confinement, and contagion that offers a conceptual breath of fresh a...