Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.28
P. Gilbert
For decades, public health practitioners have located the origins of epidemiology in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, with John Snow’s famous study of the 1854 London cholera epidem‐ ic. His spatial analysis implicating the Broad Street Pump and the Southern and Vauxhall Water Com‐ pany is often seen as a work of unparalleled in‐ spiration and heroic scientific genius. However, in The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England, historian Jacob Steere-Williams unveils a vibrant world of Victorian epidemiological practice and emerging professionalization far more expansive than this traditional narrative suggests. In this engaging look at nineteenth-century British public health, Steere-Williams explores the origins of the field of epidemiology, looking to high-profile and explos‐ ive epidemics of typhoid fever to trace how epi‐ demiological practice formed, how its boundaries were negotiated, and how evolving theories of transmission and investigative practices shaped etiologies of typhoid. Crucial to this analysis is Steere-Williams’s methodical examination of the extensive Medical Officer of Health Reports pro‐ duced by urban and rural sanitary officials in their search for the index case in outbreaks of the “Filth Disease.” Through these reports and SteereWilliams’s sharp analysis, the dual role of typhoid in public health becomes evident: first, as a lens through which to examine the changing nature of public health and the emergence of epidemiology as a unified profession; and second, as a model disease, shaping epidemiological practice, public health epistemology, and urban and rural concep‐ tions of cleanliness and filth during the same peri‐ od.
几十年来，公共卫生从业者一直在寻找19世纪中期英国流行病学的起源，约翰·斯诺对1854年伦敦霍乱流行进行了著名的研究。他对布罗德街水泵公司、南部和沃克斯豪尔水务公司的空间分析经常被视为无与伦比的灵感和英雄般的科学天才。然而，历史学家雅各布·斯蒂尔·威廉姆斯（Jacob Steere Williams）在《肮脏的疾病：伤寒和维多利亚时代英格兰的流行病学实践》（The Filth Disease:Typhoid Fever and The Practices of Epidemiology in Victoria England）一书中揭示了一个充满活力的维多利亚时代流行病学实践和新兴职业化的世界，其范围远比传统叙事所暗示的要广。在这篇引人入胜的关于19世纪英国公共卫生的文章中，斯蒂尔·威廉姆斯探索了流行病学领域的起源，着眼于备受瞩目的伤寒流行，以追踪流行病实践是如何形成的，其边界是如何协商的，以及传播理论和调查实践的演变如何影响伤寒的病因。对这一分析至关重要的是，斯蒂尔·威廉姆斯有条不紊地检查了城市和农村卫生官员在寻找“费思病”爆发的指数病例时编制的大量卫生官员报告。通过这些报告和斯蒂尔·威廉姆斯的尖锐分析，伤寒在公共卫生中的双重作用变得显而易见：首先，作为一个镜头，通过它来审视公共卫生性质的变化和流行病学作为一个统一专业的出现；其次，作为一种模式疾病，在同一时期形成了流行病学实践、公共卫生认识论以及城市和农村对清洁和肮脏的概念。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.03
C. Otter
With respect to raw materials, we shall most likely have, from all quarters of the globe, specimens of animal and vegetable life, as well as of minerals,—samples of what is in the earth and what is produced on the earth. In the class of animal substances, we shall probably have enormous elephants’ tusks from Africa and Asia; leather from Morocco and Russia; Beaver from Baffin’s Bay; the wools of Australia, of Yorkshire, and of Thibet; silk from Asia and from Europe; and furs from the Esquimaux. As the evidence of what we may expect from the suggested exposition, I may state that the Court of Directors of the East India Company intend to exhibit the best of everything that India can produce; and we shall therefore probably obtain, by this means, the best practical notion of the value of our East Indian possessions. (55)
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.21
A. Patrick
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.37
M. Tusan
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.38
P. Fletcher
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.22
Troy J. Bassett
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.11
Carolyn M. Dever
muddles our familiar sense of unified agency. A subject leading and a subject being led: who is doing the living? The fragmented image is further troubled by the plurality Miller postulates, namely, that one could have led many lives (but, alas, lives one). Moreover, we are haunted by the suggestion that the singular life we are living is not being sufficiently well lived—or is, in a Thoreauvian sense, “unlived” (xvi). “When I described my project to a friend,” Miller confides, “he said, ‘Ah—YOLO + FOMO’” (162). It is an algorithm that fits the times, no doubt, and a tidy condensation, yet it may skirt the shades of difference between “unled” (possible but not taken) and “unlived” (actual but not fulfilled). Those familiar with work on unled lives by Gary Saul Morson, Michael André Bernstein, Hilary Dannenberg, Catherine Gallagher, and perhaps most spiritually aligned, Adam Phillips and James Wood, should find Miller’s accomplished pastiche of value. In addition to his knowing selection and assembly of examples (a veritable commonplace book of unled lives), Miller is a profoundly gifted close reader—someone whose company one would like to keep, and return to again and again. David LaRocca Cornell University
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.10
David LaRocca
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.01
Yang-Ho Lee
Abstract:This essay situates Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857), which critics have traditionally read as a reaction to the so-called Indian Mutiny, in a wider imperial context by foregrounding its setting of the Mosquito Coast in 1744. Reading the silver trade, which connects the setting of 1744 to the publication date of 1857, and connecting Britain to South America and China, this essay argues that "The Perils" enacts transimperial entanglements, presenting the British Empire as imbued with an expanded temporality and terrestrial reach that extends beyond its formal political boundaries. In "The Perils," Dickens and Collins locate 1857 and India in a genealogy of empire rather than treating the Mutiny as a significant but topical moment. In doing so, they forge connections with a fictional past of British ascendency in the silver trade, overlaying the historical mahogany and opium trades, to project a British-dominated imperial future, while simultaneously displacing and erasing Indigenous peoples in the transformation of the landscape for British benefit.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.18
M. Christian
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