Based on thousands of letters written by patients and their relatives and on a wide range of other sources, this book provides the first comprehensive account of how early modern people understood, experienced and dealt with common diseases and how they dealt with them on a day-to-day basis. MICHAEL STOLBERG was trained as both an historian and a physician. He has worked in Germany, Italy and the UK and, since 2004, has been chair of Historyof Medicine at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He has published widely on the historical anthropology of illness and the body and on the theory and practice of learned medicine in the early modern period. INDICE: 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 DISCOURSEAND 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 -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24343-9
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés