Overview

This text takes a look at how our ideas of health and disease are linked to moral and immoral notions of sex. Beginning in the 1830s, Frank Mort relates his social historical narratives to the sexual choices and possibilities facing us now. The second edition of this work takes on board modern scholarship in particular applying the methods and techniques of cultural history and the increasingly important formations of race and ethnicity in this field. Consequently issues of eugenics, race hygiene and social imperialism in the late-19th- and early-20th centuries are covered. With an extended bibliography, introduction and illustrations, this second edition seeks to bring this book into the 1990s.

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Author:   Frank Mort
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9780415167345

ISBN 10:   0415167345
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   20 January 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"...""a cogent, intelligent...book...the best survey of the 'medico-moral' complex and the politics of the state regulation of sexuality in modern Britain currently available."" -Roy Porter, Medical History """"Dangerous Sexualities remains a significant and compelling reworking of the existing narrative of the history of public health in Britain."" -Susan Ferry, Bull. Hist. Med., 2001"

... a cogent, intelligent...book...the best survey of the 'medico-moral' complex and the politics of the state regulation of sexuality in modern Britain currently available. <br>-Roy Porter, Medical History <br> Dangerous Sexualities remains a significant and compelling reworking of the existing narrative of the history of public health in Britain. <br>-Susan Ferry, Bull. Hist. Med., 2001 <br>

... a cogent, intelligent...book...the best survey of the 'medico-moral' complex and the politics of the state regulation of sexuality in modern Britain currently available. -Roy Porter, Medical History Dangerous Sexualities remains a significant and compelling reworking of the existing narrative of the history of public health in Britain. -Susan Ferry, Bull. Hist. Med., 2001

Author Information

Frank Mort is Professor of Cultural history and Director of the Ralph Samuel Centre for Metropolitan Cultural History at the University of East London.

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