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Language:EnglishPublisher:American Philosophical Society PressISBN-13:9781606189016ISBN-10:1606189018UPC:9781606189016Book Category:History, Medical, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, History, Gender StudiesBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.02 inchesWeight:1.4617Product ID:SCD680CG8K
A Male Hysteria: Diabetes and the Victorian Mind
A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century England
A Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of Victorian diabetics. What could be known about diabetes given the science of the day? And what did new models of diabetes mean for the treatment and self-image of diabetics? Ideas about diabetes...Language:EnglishPublisher:American Philosophical Society PressISBN-13:9781606189016ISBN-10:1606189018UPC:9781606189016Book Category:History, Medical, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, History, Gender StudiesBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.02 inchesWeight:1.4617Product ID:SCD680CG8K
Edward Beasley is Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University. He is the author of several books on how people thought about empire and race in nineteenth-century England, including The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences (2010) and The Chartist General: Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism...
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