{"product_id":"medicine-is-war-the-martial-metaphor-in-victorian-literature-and-culture-hardcover","title":"Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLorenzo Servitje\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as \"the war against the coronavirus,\" \"the front lines of the Ebola crisis,\" \"a new weapon against antibiotic resistance,\" or \"the immune system fights cancer\" without considering their assumptions, implications, and history. But there is nothing natural about this language. It does not have to be, nor has it always been, the way to understand the relationship between humans and disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedicine Is War\u003c\/i\u003e shows how this \"martial metaphor\" was popularized throughout the nineteenth century. Drawing on the works of Mary Shelley, Charles Kingsley, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad, Lorenzo Servitje examines how literary form reflected, reinforced, and critiqued the convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture. He considers how, in migrating from military medicine to the civilian sphere, this metaphor responded to the developments and dangers of modernity: urbanization, industrialization, government intervention, imperial contact, crime, changing gender relations, and the relationship between the one and the many. While cultural and literary scholars have attributed the metaphor to late nineteenth-century germ theory or immunology, this book offers a new, more expansive history stretching from the metaphor's roots in early nineteenth-century militarism to its consolidation during the rise of early twentieth-century pharmacology. In so doing, Servitje establishes literature's pivotal role in shaping what war has made thinkable and actionable under medicine's increasing jurisdiction in our lives. \u003ci\u003eMedicine Is War\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how, in our own moment, the metaphor remains conducive to harming as much as healing, to control as much as empowerment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLorenzo Servitje \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of Literature and Medicine at Lehigh University. He has published several books, including \u003ci\u003eSyphilis and Subjectivity: From the Victorians to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e (coedited with Kari Nixon); \u003ci\u003eEndemic: Essays in Contagion Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (coedited with Kari Nixon); and \u003ci\u003eThe Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image\u003c\/i\u003e (coedited with Sherryl Vint).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45574282051686,"sku":"9781438481678","price":191.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/BjPq9uHq0_9781438481678.webp?v=1777513835","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/medicine-is-war-the-martial-metaphor-in-victorian-literature-and-culture-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}