The Long Nineteenth Century in Intellectual History

Bevir, Mark

doi:10.3366/jvc.2001.6.2.313

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“…The study of sexuality and sexual health during the period examined here suits the historical model of the "long nineteenth century", often described as lasting from 1789 to 1914. Within this model historians refer to World War One rather than monarchical changes as the event which led to the greatest socio-economic and intellectual changes in Europe (Bevir 2001). The sociocultural attitudes that develop during the Victorian period (1837-1901) persisted into the Edwardian (1901)(1902)(1903)(1904)(1905)(1906)(1907)(1908)(1909)(1910)(1911)(1912)(1913)(1914) and War (1914War ( -1918 eras.…”

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Syphilis in London’s Children’s Hospitals (1852 - 1921)

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Hirst³

2021

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Establishing the palaeoepidemiology of diseases in children is a difficult task due to limited written and physical evidence. Historic admissions records from children’s hospitals can provide large data sets allowing insights into this area, rather than just case studies which are what most commonly appear within the palaeopathological literature. An oft ignored aspect of childhood illness is venereal disease due to the social taboo surrounding this topic. This study aimed to investigate the extent of syphilis within Victorian and Edwardian London’s children’s hospitals and explore the socioeconomic context this disease was occurring within. This was achieved by examining digitised hospital admissions data covering the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries for three children’s hospitals. These records revealed a significant spike in admissions for congenital syphilis following World War One. This was likely due to the return of troops from the warfront who had been infected whilst in mainland Europe. It was also found that the upper levels of the working classes accounted for the majority of the admissions, despite these institutions being created to aid the children from the lowest socioeconomic groups. Finally, this paper highlights the need for researchers to also consider the possibility of children having acquired syphilis rather than congenital syphilis when examining such records

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Syphilis in London’s Children’s Hospitals (1852 - 1921)

Lee¹,

Siek²,

Hirst³

2021

J. bioanthropol. (Online)

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“…If these positions strike modern ears as antidemocratic or conservative, others of Mill's stances are more difficult to place in ideological terms, and on at least one front he arguably outpaced even the most “progressive” liberals of today. The reality—here as elsewhere—is more complicated than that Mill did not go as “far” as liberal philosophers and their states have gone subsequently, or that his Romantic turn against the Enlightenment kept him from being the prophet of modern politics that Bentham or some French Revolutionaries were (Bevir, 2001). In this light, Mill's verdict on two further issues in the representative‐electoral arena warrant consideration.…”

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“…The reality-here as elsewhere-is more complicated than that Mill did not go as "far" as liberal philosophers and their states have gone subsequently, or that his Romantic turn against the Enlightenment kept him from being the prophet of modern politics that Bentham or some French Revolutionaries were (Bevir, 2001). In this light, Mill's verdict on two further issues in the representative-electoral arena warrant consideration.…”

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John Stuart Mill and modern liberalism: A study in contrasts

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The Millian corpus is looked upon as a deposit of essential truths by which liberals live today, a kind of liberal-democratic ur-text (Gray, 1995;Ten, 1974). Beyond the confines of political-philosophical and political-theoretical scholarship, this is overwhelmingly how Mill is taught: In surveys of modern political thought, his books (or, usually, just book) enter as the point at which a modern liberal-democratic mindset and its cardinal commitments are supposed to have begun to receive a systematic coherence (Turner, 2017).There is an element of truth in this portrait, of course. Liberalism is devoted to women's rights, to liberty and autonomy, to representative government; something called democracy-to which Mill claimed repeated allegiance-seems indubitably to have triumphed. Upon closer inspection, though, it is difficult to credit modern liberal-democratic politics with having a particularly Millian hue.However common and in some ways compelling, many of the assimilations of Mill to the supposed liberal ascendancy in twentieth-and twenty-first-century Anglophone/Western-European societies do not hold up to scrutiny.Nor, indeed, would this disjunction have come as a great surprise to previous generations of commentators: It was widely believed in the early decades of the last century, for instance, that Mill's greatness lay in epitomizing a perspective on politics already largely bygone (Dicey, 1914;Ritchie, 1891). Some of this sentiment of eclipse reflected tropes-familiar but, articulated at the usual level of generality, not all that illuminating-about the supposed passing away of a "classical-liberal" mentalité in favor of new, more organicist or state-oriented strands of liberalism (Seaman, 1978).1 Furthermore, though, this sense of distance reflected that era's more accurate assessment of the kind of political thinker that Mill was. While his Logic and Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy were major works in first philosophy, in the domain of politics proper Mill repeatedly disavowed the pretense to originality in first principles (Mill, 1963, vol. 1, p. 251). Instead, qua public moralist and political commentator Mill was, and was understood to be, above all a kind of practical thinker: He was not a generator of new principles so much as a master synthesizer whose forte was to relate, with lucidity and a certain doggedness, a plurality of widely discussed values to live questions about

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“…In the simplest of terms, we might divide nineteenth century political thought in Britain into two strands deriving from the Enlightenment and the romantics (Bevir 1996(Bevir , 2002. Enlightenment thinkers, such as Bentham, believed in scientific and rational enquiry.…”

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Books reviewed: Prisoners of Professionalism: On the Construction and Responsibility of Political Studies. A Review Article Mark Bevir Reply to Mark Bevir: ‘Prisoners of Professionalism’ Jack Hayward Paradigm Politics Hugh T. Miller Additional Comments on Modernist Empiricism Mark Bevir The History of Government from the Earliest Times (Vols 1 to 3) S.E. Finer Administering the Summit: Administration of the Core Executive in Developed Countries B. Guy Peters, R.A.W. Rhodes and Vincent Wright (eds) Regulation Inside Government: Waste Watchers, Quality Policy and Sleaze Busters Christopher Hood, Oliver James, George Jones, Colin Stott and Tony Travers Unfinished Business: Reforming the House of Lords Ivor Richard and Damien Welfare The Politics and Policy of Local Taxation in Britain Allan McConnell Social Science in Government: The Role of Policy Researchers Richard P. Nathan Critical Issues in Cross‐National Public Administration: Privatization, Democratization, Decentralization Stuart S. Nagel (ed.)

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The Long Nineteenth Century in Intellectual History

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Syphilis in London’s Children’s Hospitals (1852 - 1921)

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