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Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Political Culture

Pathological Bodies is a distinctly interdisciplinary book that presents a complex argument about how medical concepts migrated into politics. It contributes new and important findings to several fields: the history of radicalism and reaction; the burgeoning field of medical humanities; the study of science and culture; the development of Romanticism at the turn of the eighteenth into the nineteenth century; and debates about ‘private’ and ‘public’ life. This book addresses an extensive and diverse body of primary and archival materials, both literary and visual, including: personal correspondence, political caricatures, anatomical illustrations, and medical treatises on obstetrics, diet and epidemics.