A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Enlightenment

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-45160-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Lisa Smith is Lecturer in Digital History at the University of Essex, UK.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
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

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	38 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-350-45160-6 / 1350451606
ISBN-13	978-1-350-45160-5 / 9781350451605
Zustand	Neuware