Victoria Bates Knihy

Focusing on court records from London and the South West, this book examines the medical roles in trials for sexual offenses during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. By emphasizing the concept of sexual maturity, which offers a broader perspective than the legal age of consent, it provides a fresh understanding of the histories surrounding sexual crime in this period.

This Element examines hospital noise, a problem that has repeatedly been discovered anew, with each new era bringing its own efforts to control and abate unwanted sound in healthcare settings. Explores the changing cacophony of the late twentieth-century British hospital, bringing together sensory, spatial, technological, societal, and medical histories.