Overview
- Discusses increasing attention to the social constructions of specific diseases, particularly Syphilis
- Examines how the social meanings exceed the medical significance of Syphilis
- Holds interdisciplinary appeal across the social sciences and humanities, especially medical anthropology/history/literary studies and cultural studies
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Structuring Syphilis
Keywords
- Science and technology studies
- Prostitution and Disease
- Health studies
- Medical sociology
- history of syphilis in Britain
- sexually transmitted diseases
- public health and sexually transmitted diseases
- disease prevention
- medical humanities
- literature and medicine
- Syphilis in the 21st Century
- Ernest Hemingway and Syphilis
- Syphilis in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
- Pregnancy and Syphilis in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins
About this book
Exploring the ways syphilitic rhetoric responds to, generates, or threatens social systems and cultural capital offers a method by which we can better understand the geographies of blame that are central to the conceptual heritage of the disease. This unique volume will appeal to students and scholars in the medical humanities, medical sociology, the history of medicine, and Victorian and modernist studies.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kari Nixon is Assistant professor for English at Whitworth University, USA. Her research focuses on the confluence of microbiology, germ theory, and social norms in the late nineteenth century.
Lorenzo Servitje is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Health, Medicine, and Society Program at Lehigh University, USA. His work examines the mutual constitution of literature and medicine in the Victorian era, in addition to representation of medical discourse in popular culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Syphilis and Subjectivity
Book Subtitle: From the Victorians to the Present
Editors: Kari Nixon, Lorenzo Servitje
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66367-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66366-1Published: 11 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88226-0Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66367-8Published: 14 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 188
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medical Sociology, Sociology of the Body, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, History of Medicine