HISTORY 21B Lecture 19: History 21B Week 8 Lecture 3
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Science, religion and the body in the 19th century. Permitted and forbidden practices: diet, purity, marriage. Body increasingly treated as separate from the person - cadaver. Hospitals to treat illness rather than house the sick. Bathing - not familiar in european societies. Changes in cities brought running water and heating. New clinical nursing regime in crimean war. In the era of industrialization the word "labor" came to describe the process of giving birth as well as the work men and women do in creating products for the market (martin 66). The predominant metaphor of pregnancy was that the uterus is a machine, the woman is the laborer who produces the baby, and the doctor is given the role of supervisor or foreman (63). The woman"s body is treated as a machine and as a laborer, and therefore there is an emphasis on increasing. Gave women a new way to support their families.
