Medicine, emotion and disease, 1700-1950
By: edited by Fay Bound Alberti.
Contributors: Alberti, Fay Bound, 1971-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781403985378
Subjects: Emotions -- Health aspects; Medicine, Psychosomatic; Mind and body; Psychosomatic Medicine -- history; Disease -- psychology; Emotions; History, Modern 1601-; Patients -- psychology; Physician-Patient Relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : emotion theory and medical history / Fay Bound Alberti; title: Emotions in the early modern medical tradition / Fay Bound Alberti; title: Patients and passions : languages of medicine and emotion, 1789-1850 / Thomas Dixon; title: Languages and landscapes of emotion : motherhood and puerperal insanity in the nineteenth century / Hilary Marland; title: "Cold calculations in the faces of horrors?" : pity, compassion and the making of humanitarian protocols / Bertrand Taithe; title: Sympathy under the knife : experimentation and emotion in late victorian medicine / Paul White; title: Fear and loathing in the laboratory and clinic / Otniel E. Dror; title: From Clever Hans to Michael Balint : emotion, influence and the unconscious in British medical practice / Rhodri Hayward; title: Diagnosing with feeling : the clinical assessment of schizophrenia in early twentieth-century European psychiatry / Susan Lanzoni.