Title Rotten bodies : class and contagion in eighteenth-century Britain / Kevin Siena

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (x, 333 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. Plague, Putrefaction, and the Poor -- 2. Reframing Plague after 1666 -- 3. Prisons, Debtors, and Disease in the Early Eighteenth Century -- 4. Jail Fever Comes of Age -- 5. Jail Fever and Prison Reform: London, 1750-1789 -- 6. Braving Contagion: John Howard and Ordinary Men -- 7. Typhus Ever After -- Conclusion: Plebeian and Other Bodies Summary Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especially prone to generating and spreading contagious disease, and British doctors and laypeople alike took those warnings to heart, guiding medical ideas of class throughout the eighteenth century. Dense congregations of the poor--in workhouses, hospitals, slums, courtrooms, markets, and especially prisons--were rendered sites of immense danger in the public imagination, and the fear that small outbreaks might run wild became a profound cultural force. Extensively researched, with a wide body of evidence, this book offers a fascinating look at how class was constructed physiologically and provides a new connection between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and the ravages of plague and cholera, respectively. -- publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Poor -- Health and hygiene -- Great Britain Social classes -- Health aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Plague -- Social aspects -- Great Britain POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century. Plague -- Social aspects Poor -- Health and hygiene Social classes -- Health aspects SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056808 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300245424 0300245424

Other Titles Class and contagion in eighteenth-century Britain

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