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.
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Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950
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Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700–1950
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Emotion Theory and Medical History
- Chapter 1 Emotions in the Early Modern Medical Tradition1
- Chapter 2 Patients and Passions: Languages of Medicine and Emotion, 1789–18501
- Chapter 3 Languages and Landscapes of Emotion: Motherhood and Puerperal Insanity in the Nineteenth Century1
- Chapter 4 ‘Cold Calculation in the Faces of Horrors?’ Pity, Compassion and the Making of Humanitarian Protocols.1
- Chapter 5 Sympathy under the Knife:Experimentation and Emotion in Late Victorian Medicine
- Chapter 6 Fear and Loathing in the Laboratory and Clinic
- Chapter 7 From Clever Hans to Michael Balint: Emotion, Influence and the Unconscious in British Medical Practice
- Chapter 8 Diagnosing with Feeling: The Clinical Assessment of Schizophrenia in Early Twentieth-Century European Psychiatry1
- Index
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