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Regenerating England : science, medicine and culture in inter-war Britain

Title: Regenerating England : science, medicine and culture in inter-war Britain / edited by Christopher Lawrence and Anna-K. Mayer.
Publication: Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 2000.

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iii, 316 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

In the inter-war years there was much debate in Britain as to whether the best path to post-World War I regeneration would be found in the promises of science and technology, in continued and increased efficiency, in specialization and professionalization or whether the future of the nation depended on a rediscovery of older (and more authentic) ways of doing things, on a defiant anti-modernism. This debate on Britain's future was often conducted in terms of Englishness and the rebirth of a lost, more spiritual, village England. However, 'Englishness' also entered inter-war social thinking through eclectic assimilations of diverse traditions. Prominent themes in the discourses on Britain's post-war regeneration include national character, citizenship, fitness, education, utopia, community and so on. The chapters in the present volume address these themes and break new ground by examining debates well known in political and literary history through their relations to science

Series Statement

The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 60

Uniform Title

Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 60.

Subject

Genre/Form

History
Essays.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Regenerating England: an introduction -- H.V. Morton's English Utopia -- Edward Jenner's jockey boots and the great tradition in English medicine 1918-1939 -- `Combative sense of duty': Englishness and the scientists -- `Shell of a prosperous age': history, landscape and the modern in Paul Rotha'a The Face of Britain (1935) -- `Enriching and enlarging the whole sphere of human activities': work of the voluntary sector in housing reform in inter-war Britain -- Healthy society for future intellectuals; developing student life at civic universities -- Potential for participation: health centres and the idea of citizenship c.1920-1940 -- Constituting citizenship: mental deficiency, mental health and human rights in inter-war Britain -- Biopolitics of Arthur Klein and Morley Roberts -- `Not a domestic utensil but a woman and a citizen': Stella Browne on women, health and society.

ISBN

904200911X
9789042009110
9042009012
9789042009011

OCLC

ocm45615002
45615002
SCSB-1143851

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Princeton University Library