Medicine, emotion and disease, 1700-1950 / edited by Fay Bound Alberti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alberti, Fay Bound, 1971-

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Health aspects.

Emotions.

Medicine, Psychosomatic.

Mind and body.

Psychosomatic Medicine--history.

Disease--psychology.

History, Modern 1601-.

Patients--psychology.

Physician-Patient Relations.

Medical Subjects:

Psychosomatic Medicine--history.

Disease--psychology.

Emotions.

History, Modern 1601-.

Patients--psychology.

Physician-Patient Relations.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 195 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Contents:

Introduction : emotion theory and medical history / Fay Bound Alberti

Emotions in the early modern medical tradition / Fay Bound Alberti

Patients and passions : languages of medicine and emotion, 1789-1850 / Thomas Dixon

Languages and landscapes of emotion : motherhood and puerperal insanity in the nineteenth century / Hilary Marland

"Cold calculations in the faces of horrors?" : pity, compassion and the making of humanitarian protocols / Bertrand Taithe

Sympathy under the knife : experimentation and emotion in late victorian medicine / Paul White

Fear and loathing in the laboratory and clinic / Otniel E. Dror

From Clever Hans to Michael Balint : emotion, influence and the unconscious in British medical practice / Rhodri Hayward

Diagnosing with feeling : the clinical assessment of schizophrenia in early twentieth-century European psychiatry / Susan Lanzoni.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1403985375

9781403985378

OCLC:

65644659

Publisher Number:

9781403985378

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