Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History
Experiencing Medicine and Illness
Rob Boddice editor Bettina Hitzer editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:28th Dec '23
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An exploration into the emotional and sensory experience of illness in modern history.
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.
[This] book would be of value to diverse scholars across disciplinary boundaries. ... The history of emotions has achieved a kind of theoretical and methodological sophistication and maturity that allow us to explore how emotions change and why. Feeling Dis-ease is the evidence. * H-Net Reviews *
Many disciplines are represented across the volume, such that interested readers will likely be found in history and psychology departments, as well as in schools of medicine ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty. * CHOICE *
This is an innovative and ambitious volume that brings together a range of themes, disciplinary approaches, time-periods, and places to examine the affective dimensions of health and ill-health. This book is about being both well and sick, and considers the experiences of practitioners, patients, and the public. * Agnes Arnold-Forster, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK *
If there is a handbook on how to write the affective into the history of medicine and health, this is it. Writing during a pandemic, the authors are attuned to the uproars and silences that comprise the emotionally-charged responses to personal and collective suffering from a rich array of perspectives. * Jonathan Reinarz, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK *
ISBN: 9781350228405
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296 pages