Table of Content
IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Empires in Bodies; Bodies in Empires Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine, USA1 Birth and Death under the Sign of Thomas Malthus Thomas Laqueur, University of California, USA and Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College, USA2 Medical Perspectives on Health and Disease Michael Worboys, University of Manchester, UK3 Othering Sexual Perversity: England, Empire, Race, and Sexual Science Richard C. Sha, American University, USA4 Medical Science, Technology, and the BodyChandak Sengoopta, University of London, UK5 Popular Beliefs and the Body: "A Nation of Good Animals" Pamela K. Gilbert, University of Florida, USA6 The Normal, the Ideal, and the Beautiful: Perfect Bodies during the Age of Empire Michael Hau, Monash University, Australia7 Empire, Boundaries, and Bodies: Colonial Tattooing Practices Clare Anderson, University of Warwick, UK8 Smallpox, Vaccination, and the Marked Body Nadja Durbach, University of Utah, USA9 Picturing Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College, USA10 From Mimetic Machines to Digital Organisms: The Transformation of the Human Motor Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index
