Imperial Bodies in London
Imperial Bodies in London

Author: Kristin D. Hussey

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0822988445

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Since the eighteenth century, European administrators and officers, military men, soldiers, missionaries, doctors, wives, and servants moved back and forth between Britain and its growing imperial territories. The introduction of steam-powered vessels, and deep-docks to accommodate them at London ports, significantly reduced travel time for colonists and imperial servants traveling home to see their families, enjoy a period of study leave, or recuperate from the tropical climate. With their minds enervated by the sun, livers disrupted by the heat, and blood teeming with parasites, these patients brought the empire home and, in doing so, transformed medicine in Britain. With Imperial Bodies in London, Kristin D. Hussey offers a postcolonial history of medicine in London. Following mobile tropical bodies, her book challenges the idea of a uniquely domestic medical practice, arguing instead that British medicine was imperial medicine in the late Victorian era. Using the analytic tools of geography, she interrogates sites of encounter across the imperial metropolis to explore how medical research and practice were transformed and remade at the crossroads of empire.

Corrupt Bodies
Corrupt Bodies

Author: Kris Hollington

Publisher: Icon Books

Published: 2019-09-26

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1785785532

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** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION ** In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from lowly assistant to running the UK's busiest murder morgue. He couldn't believe his luck. What he didn't know was that Southwark, operating in near-Victorian conditions, was a hotbed of corruption. Attendants stole from the dead, funeral homes paid bribes, and there was a lively trade in stolen body parts and recycled coffins. Set in the fascinating pre-DNA and psychological profiling years of 1985-87, this memoir tells a gripping and gruesome tale, with a unique insight into a world of death most of us don't ever see. Peter managed pathologists, oversaw post mortems and worked alongside Scotland Yard's Murder Squad - including on the case of the serial killer, the Stockwell Strangler. This is a thrilling tale of murder and corruption in the mid-1980s, told with insight and compassion.

Medieval Bodies
Medieval Bodies

Author: Jack Hartnell

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2018-03-29

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 178283270X

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A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process. Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.

Stays and Body Image in London
Stays and Body Image in London

Author: Lynn Sorge-English

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1317323343

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This book fills a significant gap in the literature on eighteenth-century social and cultural history. Starting with their production and trade, Sorge-English looks at the intricacies of the staymaker’s craft, the role of gender in the design and manufacture of stays and the changing shape of stays over time.

Body Language Coach Diploma - City of London College of Economics - 3 months - 100% online / self-paced
Body Language Coach Diploma - City of London College of Economics - 3 months - 100% online / self-paced

Author: City of London College of Economics

Publisher: City of London College of Economics

Published:

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13:

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Overview Learn how to read others’ thoughts by their gestures and become a professional body language coach. Content - Non-verbal Gestures - Facial Expressions - The Eyes - Lip Reading - Reading the Signs - Getting the Most Out of Body Language - Becoming who you want to be - Analyzing Handshakes - Clothing - And much more Duration 3 months Assessment The assessment will take place on the basis of one assignment at the end of the course. Tell us when you feel ready to take the exam and we’ll send you the assignment questions. Study material The study material will be provided in separate files by email / download link.

Immaterial Bodies
Immaterial Bodies

Author: Lisa Blackman

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2012-08-16

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 144626887X

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In this unique contribution, Blackman focuses upon the affective capacities of bodies, human and non-human as well as addressing the challenges of the affective turn within the social sciences. Fresh and convincing, this book uncovers the paradoxes and tensions in work in affect studies by focusing on practices and experiences, including voice hearing, suggestion, hypnosis, telepathy, the placebo effect, rhythm and related phenomena. Questioning the traditional idea of mind over matter, as well as discussing the danger of setting up a false distinction between the two, this book makes for an invaluable addition within cultural theory and the recent turn to affect. In a powerful and engaging matter, Blackman discusses the immaterial body across the neurosciences, physiology, media and cultural studies, body studies, artwork, performance, psychology and psychoanalysis. Interdisciplinary in its core, this book is a must for everyone seeking a dynamic and thought provoking analysis of culture and communication today.

Rivers of London: Body Work
Rivers of London: Body Work

Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Publisher: Titan Comics

Published: 2021-07-07

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1787737403

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This unique volume offers a rare glimpse at the development of the first Rivers of London graphic novel, Body Work, showcasing the script by Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel in a side-by-side comparison with the artwork by Lee Sullivan and colorist Luis Guerrero. Universally acclaimed by critics and fans alike on its release in 2016, Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London graphic novel series has gone on to spawn eight further adventures, featuring Metropolitan police officer and part-time wizard Peter Grant as he examines unusual crimes that involve magic or the supernatural in the dark belly of London’s underworld. Body Work sees Peter Grant investigate a mysterious suicide that soon leads him on a chase through the streets of London after a possessed car on a homicidal killing spree. But what links it to a Bosnian refugee, the Most Haunted Car in the England, a bunch of teenagers loaded on Ketamine and a seemingly harmless wooden bench with the darkest of pasts?

Rivers of London: Body Work #3
Rivers of London: Body Work #3

Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Publisher: Titan Comics

Published: 2015-09-16

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 1782768386

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The members (all two of them) of London's most secret police force are on the trail of a self-driving killer car. But it takes something weird to catch something weird and soon they are behind the wheel of – The Most Haunted Car in England! Written by Doctor Who writer Ben Aaronovitch (Remembrance of the Daleks) and set in the world of his own bestselling novels, with Doctor Who showrunner Andrew Cartmel! Rivers of London novels have sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide to date! In continuity with the novels – not an adaptation, this is an all-new story set between 'Broken Homes' and 'Foxglove Summer'.