Cholera and nation : doctoring the social body in Victorian England / Pamela K. Gilbert.

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008], ©2008.

viii, 231 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-221) and index.

A sinful nation: 1832 -- After 1832: medical authority and the clergy -- A suffering nation: responses of the poor and radicals to the cholera -- Medics and the public sphere -- The body in question -- Race, gender, and cholera -- Narrating cholera and nation -- Kingsley: nation, gender, and the body.