Feeling dis-ease in modern history : experiencing medicine and illness / edited by Rob Boddice and Bettina Hitzer.

Date:
2022
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Description

"This book explores experiences of illness, broadly construed. It encompasses the emotional and sensory disruptions that attend disease, injury, mental illness or trauma, and gives an account of how medical practitioners, experts, lay authorities and the public have felt about such disruptions. Considering all sides of the medical encounter and highlighting the intersection of intellectual history and medical knowledge, of institutional atmospheres, built environments and technological practicalities, and of emotional and sensory experience, Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History presents a wide-ranging affective account of feeling well and of feeling ill. Especially occupied with the ways in which dynamics of power and authority have either validated or discounted dis-eased feelings, the book's contributors probe at the intersectional politics of medical expertise and patient experience to better understand situated expressions of illness, their reception, and their social, cultural and moral valuation. Drawing on methodologies from the histories of emotions, senses, science and the medical humanities, this book gives an account of the complexity of undergoing illness: of feeling dis-ease"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Physical description

ix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition

Paperback edition.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Emotion and experience in the history of medicine : elaborating a theory and seeking a method / Rob Boddice and Bettina Hitzer -- Feeling the dis-ease of ebola : an invisible war / Emmanuel King Urey-Yarkpawolo -- Ebola wahala : breaching experiments in a Sierra Leonean border town / Luisa Enria and Angus Fayia Tengbeh -- History before corona : memory, experience, and emotions / Bettina Hitzer -- The binary logic of emotion in the sensorium of virtual health : the case of Happify / Kirsten Ostherr -- Third person : narrating dis-ease and knowledge in psychiatric case histories / Marietta Meier -- Feeling (and falling) ill : finding a language of illness / Franziska Gygax -- Beyond symptomology : listening to how Palestinians conceive of their own suffering and well-being / Heidi Morrison -- Forensic sense : sexual violence, medical professionals, and the senses / Joanna Bourke -- The concept of Leidensdruck in West-Ferman criminal therapy, 1960-85 / Marcel Streng -- The efficacy of Arcadia : constructing emotions of nature in the pained body through landscape imagery, c.1945-present / Brenda Lynn Edgar -- 'Fashionable' diseases in Georgian Britain : medical theory, cultural meanings and lived experience / James Kennaway -- From a patient's point of view : a sensual-perceptual approach to bed treatment / Monika Ankele -- Feeling Penfield / Annmarie Adams.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9781350228375
  • 1350228370