Screen LibraryMedicine, emotion and disease, 1700-1950
Using interdisciplinary techniques and original research findings, this volume explores the shift from humoral to nervous interpretations of emotion; the emotional nature of the medical professional-patient relationship; and the extent to which gender might influence the diagnosis, treatment and pro...
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| Language: | English |
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Using interdisciplinary techniques and original research findings, this volume explores the shift from humoral to nervous interpretations of emotion; the emotional nature of the medical professional-patient relationship; and the extent to which gender might influence the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of pathological emotional conditions. 'The history of emotion, and its earlier cognate 'the passions', offer rich challenges to cultural analysts, as this volume abundantly shows. The essays take us through intricate articulations with successive medical systems, from humouralism and temperaments to experimental psychology and its laboratory protocols. For the Nineteenth-century, we are introduced to the distress of postpuerperal insanity, the evocation of pity in humanitarian campaigns, and the polemics of creativity and callousness around animal experimentation. We also gain access to the intimacies of medical consultation in |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781403985378, 2006. |
| Carrier Form: | 224 p. |
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9781403985378 9780230286030 : 0230286038 : |
| CLC: | R-09 |
| Contents: | Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Emotions in the Early Modern Medical Tradition-- F.Bound Alberti Patients and Passions: Languages of Medicine and Emotion, 1790-1850-- T.Dixon Languages and Landscapes of Emotion: Motherhood and Puerperal Insanity in the Nineteenth Century-- H.Marland 'Cold Calculation in the Faces of Horrors?': Pity, Compassion and the Making of Humanitarian Protocols-- B.Taithe Sympathy Under the Knife: Experimentation and Emotion in Late Victorian Britain-- P.White Fear and Loathing in the Laboratory and Clinic-- O.E.Dror From Clever Hans to Mic |