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Thackeray and the Culture of War,words. He explained to his superior, who lived in the village of Valls, fifty-six miles from Barcelona, that he was taking the necessary steps to relieve Felip Veciana’s son Pedro of the pain he suffered as a result of a shotgun accident. The words of this letter reveal both mediation in the presenc

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War, the Army and Victorian Literaturet to do justice to this title in English. A literal translation might be ‘The Hunchbacks’ Tailor, or Orthopaedia: a Fraud in one act’ — but this fails to convey the droll . that gave the work its satirical edge and comic appeal. The title is, in fact, a play on words: the orthopaedic ‘tailor’ is rea

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War, the Army and Victorian Literatureringing sex under the new medical gaze and making sexology respectable.. They suggest that the medicalization of sexuality was an expression of the power that medicine, the state or patriarchy, supposedly had or perhaps an element of control that hegemonic forces were extending. Sexological change i

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War, the Army and Victorian Literatureand severe side-effects of conventional cancer treatments: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Faced with unprecedented public criticism of the low success rate of the costly ‘battle against cancer’, the American cancer establishment was seriously under attack. It needed a scientific promise that s

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Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology,of women’s health involved many members of the community, in a kind of perpetual symposium on women’s bodies. In urban and rural cultures alike, the healing process (including pregnancy and birth) took place within the community, and with constant reference to it. Parents, relatives, friends and ser