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Experiencing illness and the sick body in early modern Europe

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.

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Main Authors: Stolberg, Michael.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Health attitudes > History > 16th century > Europe.
Health attitudes > History > 17th century > Europe.
Health behavior > History > 16th century > Europe.
Health behavior > History > 17th century > Europe.
Sick > Psychology > History > 16th century > Europe.
Sick > Psychology > History > 17th century > Europe.
Physician and patient > History > 16th century > Europe.
Physician and patient > History > 17th century > Europe.
History of medicine > Europe.
Social & cultural history > Europe.
Health and Fitness.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230355842
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230243439.
Carrier Form: 304 p.
ISBN: 9780230243439
9780230355842 :
0230355846 :
CLC: R16
Contents: 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.

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