JOURNAL ARTICLE

Timely Hospitality and Cholera Care in Mary Seacole's Wonderful Adventures.

  • Published In: J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 2024, v. 12, n. 1. P. 447 1 of 3

  • Database: America: History and Life with Full Text 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Reilly, Bridget 3 of 3

Abstract

In Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857) Mary Seacole investigates assumptions about where bodies should be and how they should be treated during times of cholera epidemic negotiating ideas promoted by race science and maintained within the disciplined orderings of certain nineteenth-century medical spaces. Offering an alternative to these temporal orderings Seacole revives antiquated formations of medicine centered on the early Christian hospital while also drawing upon diasporic knowledge cast outside the bounds of medical modernity. In doing so Wonderful Adventures illustrates that "progress" does not necessarily entail ethical advancements. Seacole's hotels medical praxis and theories of nature and disease simultaneously borrow from and offer alternatives to the liberal linear orderings of a history written in European centers of science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. 2024/03, Vol. 12, Issue 1, p447
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:2166-742X
  • DOI:10.1353/jnc.2024.a939668
  • Accession Number:180392086
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