Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History

Experiencing Medicine and Illness

Rob Boddice, Bettina Hitzer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-22837-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Rob Boddice is Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences, Tampere University, Finland, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Canada. He is the author or editor of eleven books, most recently Humane Professions (2021), Emotion, Sense, Experience, with Mark Smith (2020), A History of Feelings (2019), and The History of Emotions (2018). Bettina Hitzer is Heisenberg Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the Technical University Dresden as well as Privatdozentin at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2014-2020, she was Leader of the Minerva Research Group “Emotions and Illness: Histories of an Intricate Relation” at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. She was awarded the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for her most recent book, Krebs fühlen (2020). She is the author or (co-)editor of nine books and four special issues including “History of Science and the Emotions” (Osiris, 2016).

Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Emotion and Experience in the History of Medicine: Elaborating A Theory and Seeking A Method, Rob Boddice and Bettina Hitzer

Lived Epidemic
Commentary

1. Feeling the Dis-Ease of Ebola: An Invisible War, Emmanuel King Urey-Yarkpawolo
2. Ebola Wahala: Breaching Experiments in a Sierra Leonean Border Town, Luisa Enria and Angus Fayia Tengbeh
3. History before Corona: Memory, Experience, and Emotions, Bettina Hitzer

Datafication and Knowledge Production
Commentary

4. The Binary Logic of Emotion in the Sensorium of Virtual Health: The Case of Happify, Kirsten Ostherr
5. Third Person: Narrating Dis-Ease and Knowledge in Psychiatric Case Histories, Marietta Meier

Dis-ease Narratives: Making and Listening
Commentary

6. Feeling (and Falling) Ill: Finding a Language of Illness, Franziska Gygax
7. Beyond Symptomology: Listening to How Palestinians Conceive of their own Suffering and Well-being, Heidi Morrison

Expertise, Authority, Emotion
Commentary

8. Forensic Sense: Sexual Violence, Medical Professionals, and the Senses, Joanna Bourke
9. The Concept of Leidensdruck in West-German Criminal Therapy, 1960-85, Marcel Streng

Construction and Contingency of Experience
Commentary

10. The Efficacy of Arcadia: Constructing Emotions of Nature in the Pained Body through Landscape Imagery, c.1945-Present, Brenda Lynn Edgar
11. ‘Fashionable’ Diseases in Georgian Britain: Medical Theory, Cultural Meanings and Lived Experience, James Kennaway

Material, Objects, Feelings
Commentary

12. From a Patient’s Point of View: A Sensual-Perceptual Approach to Bed Treatment, Monika Ankele
13. Feeling Penfield, Annmarie Adams

Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	History of Emotions
Zusatzinfo	8 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-350-22837-0 / 1350228370
ISBN-13	978-1-350-22837-5 / 9781350228375
Zustand	Neuware