Experiencing illness and the sick bo...
Stolberg, Michael, (1957-)

 

  • Experiencing illness and the sick body in early modern Europe[electronic resource] /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 306.46109409031
    Title/Author: Experiencing illness and the sick body in early modern Europe/ by Michael Stolberg.
    Author: Stolberg, Michael,
    Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011.
    Description: 1 online resource (vi, 292 p.)
    Subject: Health attitudes - History - 16th century. - Europe
    Subject: Health attitudes - History - 17th century. - Europe
    Subject: Health behavior - History - 16th century. - Europe
    Subject: Health behavior - History - 17th century. - Europe
    Subject: Sick - Psychology - 16th century. - Europe
    Subject: Sick - Psychology - 17th century. - Europe
    Subject: Physician and patient - History - 16th century. - Europe
    Subject: Physician and patient - History - 17th century. - Europe
    Subject: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
    Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
    Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
    ISBN: 9780230355842 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230355846 (electronic bk.)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Some Thoughts on Theory -- Sources -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: ILLNESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- The Concern for Oneself -- Disease and the Self -- The Experience of Pain -- The Search for Meaning: Religion, Witchcraft and Astrology -- The Search for Meaning: Illness, Way of Life and Biography -- The Narrative Reconstruction of Personal History -- Anxieties -- The Physician's Audience: Illness and the Bedside Community -- Nursing Care -- The Medical Marketplace -- The Doctor-Patient Relationship -- PART II: PERCEPTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS -- Medical Popularization -- From Temperament to Character -- Plethora and Apoplexy -- Fluxes, Gout and Rheumatism -- 'Gichter' and Cramps -- Acrimonies -- Red Murrain (Erysipelas) -- Scurvy -- The Therapy of Acrimonies -- Miasms and Contagia: Plague, French Disease and English Sweat -- Indigestion, Winds and Slime -- Obstruction and Disrupted Excretion -- Stagnation and Deposits -- Cancer -- Pathological Heat -- Vapors -- Fever -- Consumption and Consumptive Fever -- Expenditure and Exhaustion -- Dropsy -- Seminal Economy -- PART III: DOMINANT DISCOURSE AND THE EXPERIENCE OF DISEASE -- The Sensible Body -- A New Disease: the Vapors -- Historical Roots: 'Vapores', Hypochondria and Hysteria -- The Rise of the Nerves -- Embodiment -- Critique of Civilization -- The Sensible Woman -- The Cult of Sensibility -- Illness as Protest -- Conclusion: A New Bourgeois Habitus -- Manuscript Sources -- Printed Sources.
    [NT 15000229]: Illness was ubiquitous in early modern society. Health was constantly threatened and medicine often proved powerless. Based on his analysis of contemporary autobiographical writing, of thousands of letters which the sick and their relatives sent to physicians of the time and of a wide range of other sources, Michael Stolberg describes how early modern people coped with pain and disease, how they interacted with physicians and other healers and how they tried to make sense of their suffering. He presents the ideas and images that people associated with commonly diagnosed diseases such as phthisis, gout, cancer, dropsy or fever. The first thorough and comprehensive overview of the early modern experience and lay interpretation of illness, Stolberg also traces the impact of new medical theories on ordinary people's medical views.
    Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230355842
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