Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture (Body, Commodity, Text: Studies of Objectifying Practice)

by ErinO'Connor (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $18.82

  Analyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, the author explores the industrial logic of disease.