Constructing Bodies and Persons: Health and Medicine in Historic Social Context
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2019
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Constructing Bodies and Persons: Health and Medicine in Historic Social Context," at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Developed as part of the broader human endeavor to gain mastery over the universe – including the human body – through the principles of scientific empiricism, the theory and practice of medicine has been forged through historical approaches to care. Archaeology is uniquely positioned to trace the emergence and development of modern medicine through the objects and spaces of its practice and their interaction with individual bodies. The papers in this symposium focus on the interface between mind, body, and environment. How do bodies interact with medical objects and institutions? How did people build community and shape their daily life practices to care for their minds and bodies and those of their loved ones? How were structural barriers experienced in daily life? Shifting focus from triumphalist narratives of medical progress onto everyday practices and specific settings, the papers in this symposium expand, qualify, and challenge commonly accepted histories of medicine.
Other Keywords
Medicine •
Industrial Archaeology •
Coal Mining •
Identity •
embodiment •
Structural Violence •
disability •
labor archaeology •
Arkansas •
asylums
Temporal Keywords
19th Century •
20th Century •
19th Century - 20th Century •
1850's-Present
Geographic Keywords
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory) •
Delaware (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-5 of 5)
- Documents (5)
- Cleaning Up "A Blot On Civilization": Examining Archaeological Evidence Of The Medical And Scientific Regulation Of Midwifery During The Progressive Era (2019)
- "Cures after Doctors Fail": A Four-Field Approach to Medicated Pain Relief in Early 20th Century America (2019)
- Hands of Mercy: Methods of Healing Practice by Frontier Nuns (2019)
- Material Culture and Structural Violence: Reframing Evidence of the Social Gradient in Industrial Contexts (2019)
- "Space, Division, Classification": Gender, Class, and Race in the Treatment of Insanity in 19th-Century New England Lunatic Asylums (2019)