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Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture (SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) by Lorenzo Servitje, 1983- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as "the war against the coronavirus," "the front lines of the Ebola crisis," "a new weapon against antibiotic resistance," or "the immune system fights cancer" without considering their assumptions, implications, and history. But there is nothing natural about this language. It does not have to be, nor has it always been, the way to understand the relationship between humans and disease. Medicine Is War shows how this "martial metaphor" was popularized throughout the nineteenth century. Drawing on the works of Mary Shelley, Charles Kingsley, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad, Lorenzo Servitje examines how literary form reflected, reinforced, and critiqued the convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture. He considers how, in migrating from military medicine to the civilian sphere, this metaphor responded to the developments and dangers of modernity: urbanization, industrialization, government intervention, imperial contact, crime, changing gender relations, and the relationship between the one and the many. While cultural and literary scholars have attributed th
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- Author
- Lorenzo Servitje, 1983-
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781438481678
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Medical, Literary Criticism
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