A cultural history of medicine in the Enlightenment
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A cultural history of medicine in the Enlightenment
（The cultural histories series, . A cultural history of medicine / general editor,
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
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A cultural history of medicine in the age of Enlightenment
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ISBN for set: 9781472569875
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-226) and index
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Description
The Enlightenment, as concept and time period, was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind and body, humans and the natural world, and reason and imagination. The 18th century was inherently contradictory, particularly when it came to ideas about medicine and the body. The growing optimism that medicine and science could control nature and disease was counterbalanced by the hierarchies of gender, race and class being fixed on the body. Enlightenment ideals emphasized rationalism and expertise, but they existed alongside religious belief and everyday authority. Focusing on Western Europe, this volume examines disability and suffering, emotional and physical sensations, supernatural phenomena and scepticism, medical authority and expertise, biologization and power, and bodily and environmental regulation. Volume contributors have used a range of cultural history methodologies - from material history to discourse analysis - to examine the Enlightenment's tensions. The book's chapters centre on topics (Environment, Food, Disease, Animals, Objects, Experiences, Mind/Brain and Authority) that have encouraged contributors to reframe their assumptions about the history of medicine and the Enlightenment.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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General Editors' Preface, Roger Cooter
Introduction, Lisa Smith, Claudia Stein and Roger Cooter
1 Environment Erin Spinney
2 Food Emma Spary
3 Disease Lina Minous
4 Animals Monica Mattfeld
5 Objects Marieke Hendriksen
6 Experiences Micheline Louis-Courvoisier
7 Mind/Brain Claudia Stein and Roger Cooter
8 Authority Angela Haas
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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