Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated. Writers of diverse types have been as active in constructing these meanings as doctors, yet it is only recently that literary traditions have been recognized as a rich archive for these interpretations. These essays focus on the methodological hurdles encountered in retrieving these interpretations, called 'framing' by the authors. Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History aims to explain what has been said about these interpretations and to compare their value.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-06-24
Mått:140 x 216 x 21 mm
Vikt:546 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:329
Upplaga:2003
Förlag:Palgrave USA
ISBN:9781403912923

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

George S. ROUSSEAU is Emeritus Professor at De Montfort University and now attached to the History Faculty of the University of Oxford. He has long been interested in the interface of culture and medicine and has written widely on the subject. His books include This Long Disease, My Life: Alexander Pope and the Sciences, The Languages of Psyche, Medicine and the Muses, Perilous Enlightenment, and Gout: The Patrician Malady.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Contributors Introduction Framing the Frame: the Imagining and Framing of Disease in Cultural History; G.S.Rousseau PART I: FRAMING AND IMAGINING DISEASE Within the Frame: Self-Starvation and the Making of Culture; C.Albano Imagining Smallpox in the Long Eighteenth Century: Inscription and Interpretation; D.E.Shuttleton "This Pestilence Which Walketh in Darkness": New York City Reads the 1832 Cholera Epidemic; J.Weiss Mapping Colonial Disease: Victorian Medical Cartography in British India; P.K.Gilbert Framing the "Magic Mountain Malady": The Reception of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain in the Medical Community, 1924-2000; M.Herwig PART II: FRAMING AND IMAGINING MADNESS "A Little Bit Mad/Almost Mad/Not Quite Mad": Eccentricity and the Framing of Madness in Nineteenth-Century French Culture; M.Gill Retrospective Medicine, Hypnosis, Hysteria and French Literature, 1875-1895; M.R.Finn Shifting Conceptions of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Therapies in Hungary, 1858-1908; E.Lafferton PART III: THE PATIENT'S NARRATIVES AND IMAGES Name Disease or Voice Sickness? The Patient's Contribution; P.Rieder Framing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Gut: Genius, Digestion, Hypochondria; G.S.Rousseau & D.B.Haycock PART IV: TOWARDS A POETICS AND METAPHORICS OF DISEASE Paradoxical Diseases in the Late Renaissance: The Cases of Syphilis and Plague; A.Steczowicz Proved on the Pulses: Heart Disease in Victorian Culture; K.Blair Tropenkoller: The Interdiscursive Poetics of a German Colonial Syndrome; S.Besser Index