From lesion to metaphor : chronic pain in British, French and German medical writings, 1800-1914
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From lesion to metaphor : chronic pain in British, French and German medical writings, 1800-1914
（The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine）（Clio medica, 58）
Rodopi, 2000
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Includes bibliography and index
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Description
Evidence of a nineteenth-century tradition of theoretical discussion about the relationship between chronic pain and pathological lesion, trauma, mood, memory and personality is brought together here for the first time. A wide range of medical texts is surveyed, including pathology, surgery, physiology, neurology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. We see the medical gaze first penetrate the tissues of the body then extend to examine the language and mental state of the pain patient.
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Abstract
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Secondary Literature Review and Methodological Remarks
1. The Birth of a Problem
2. A Local Irritation. Pain without lesion in the writings of French and British physicians and surgeons: 1820-40
3. Gemeingefuhl. German Romanticism, cenesthesis and subjective pain: 1794-1846
4. Reflexion and Depression. Pain without lesion in mid-century German and British 'neurological' and 'psychiatric' writings: 1840-55
5. Functional Nervous Disorders in French and British Medical Texts: 1859-71
6. Functional Nervous Disorders in French and British Medical Texts: 1866-1886
7. Psychalgia and Conversion. Pain without lesion in late nineteenth-century psychiatric and psychoanalytic writings: 1872-95
8. Pain ans Psychopathology in Early Twentieth-Century French and German Psychiatric Writings: 1900-14
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
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