Regulated Lives
Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry''s changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and 1914. Timothy Alborn''s unique study uses insurance practices to demonstrate how Victorian ideas about the lived experience altered both to accommodate and resist elements of modernity such as statistical thinking, medicalization, and capitalist bureaucracy.
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Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry''s changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and 1914. Timothy Alborn''s unique study uses insurance practices to demonstrate how Victorian ideas about the lived experience altered both to accommodate and resist elements of modernity such as statistical thinking, medicalization, and capitalist bureaucracy.
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