From Body to Community

Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain

AvCristian Berco

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Known in early modern Europe by many names – the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis – the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death. The main institution which treated it, the pox hospital, has come down to us as a stench-filled and overcrowded place that sought to treat the body and reform the soul.Using the sole surviving admissions book for Toledo, Spain’s Hospital de Santiago, Cristian Berco reconstructs the lives of men and women afflicted with the pox by tracing their experiences before, during, and after their hospitalization. Through an innovative combination of medical, institutional, and notarial sources, he explores the physical and social lives of the patients. What were the social repercussions of living with a shameful disease? What did living with this chronic illness mean for careers and networks, love and families, and everyday relationships? From Body to Community is a textured analysis at once touched by the illness but not solely defined by it.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-03-14
Mått:162 x 236 x 23 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Toronto Iberic
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442649620
Utmärkelser:Winner of European Association for the History of Medicine and Health book award for 2017 2017 (Romania)

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Cristian Berco is the Canada Research Chair in Social and Cultural Difference and a professor in the Department of History at Bishop’s University.

Recensioner i media

‘Berco’s study provides an important contribution for any future comparative work. Scholars should benefit from and extend Berco’s innovative use of sources.’- Mona O’Brien (H-Histsex, H-Net Reviews August 2016) ‘Berco’s writing style is commendable as it avoids medical jargon…. Despite the subject matter, it was a fun to read suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate student.’- Daniel A. Crew (Renaissance Quarterly vol 70:02:2017) ‘A fascinating book that tells the stories of lives that intersected in the Hospital de Santiago.’- John Slater (Isis Journal September 2017) "Berco has produced a very readable book, of interest to those studying the history of Baroque Spain and the history of medicine."- Robert Weston, The University of Western Australia (Parergon 35.1) "This volume significantly enhances our understanding of the pox in early modern Iberia."- Kevin Siena, Trent University (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018) ‘Berco is to be commended for making such diligent and fruitful use of what are generally quite dry and often tedious records to scour… This book contributes an important perspective for both medical and social historians.’- Kristy Wilson Bowers (Canadian Journal of History vol 51:03:2016)

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Getting Sick: Signs, Sin, and Social WorthChapter 2. Encounters of the Third Kind: Medical Assumptions and PatientsChapter 3. Melting Pot: The Hospital de Santiago’s PatientsChapter 4. Safeguarding Reputation: Gender, Hospitalization, and TextilesChapter 5. Between Body and Soul: Treatment at the Hospital de SantiagoChapter 6. Getting Hitched: Pox, Sexuality and MarriageChapter 7. Making Ends Meet: Disease, Work, and FamilyChapter 8. Playing Nice with Others: Pox and CommunityConclusion