Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine: Mediating Medicine in Early Modern and Modern Europe

by C. Usborne, W. Blïcourt

Overview

A pioneering contribution to the cultural history of medicine exploring issues as diverse as dissection of the heart, childbirth, masturbation, animal care, hermaphrodites, orthopaedics, 'miracle' drugs, smallpox and sex advice in different European cultures from the 1600s to the present day. Each case study illustrates various roles of mediation; reconciling conflicting ideas in the medical encounter; as an instrument of domination, or conversely, of resistance. Roy Porter's brilliant foreword conveys the methodological significance as well as the pleasure of these essays.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403915696
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/18/2003
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

YAARAH BAR-ON Deputy Director, Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv University LOGIE BARROW Professor of British Social History and Political Traditions, University of Bremen, Germany HERA COOK Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney LOUISE HILL CURTH Lecturer, University of Exeter PALMIRA FONTES DA COSTA Assistant Professor, New University of Lisbon MICHELINE LOUIS-COURVOISIER Geneva Medical School CONSTANCE MALPAS Digital Initiatives Coordinator, New York Academy of Medicine TOINE PIETERS Assistant Professor, Free University of Amsterdam School of Medicine and Professor, Groningen University, the Netherlands SÉVERINE PILLOUD Researcher, Institut Universitaire Romand d'Histoire de la Médicine et de la Santé Publique, Lausanne, Switzerland ROY PORTER MATTHEW RAMSEY Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA CATRIEN SANTING Lecturer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands MICHAEL STOLBERG Professor of history of medicine at Munich University, Germany ALFONS ZARZOSO Researcher and curator of the Museum of the History of Medicine of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Medicine, Mediation and Meaning; W.de Blécourt and C.Usborne De Affectibus Cordis et Palpitatione: Secrets of the Heart in Counter-Reformation Italy; C.Santing Neighbours and Gossip in Early Modern Gynaecology; Y.Bar-On Seventeenth-century English Almanacs: Transmitters of Advice for Sick Animals; L.Curth Consulting by Letter in the Eighteenth century: Mediating the Patient's View?; M.Louis-Courvoisier and S.Pilloud Medical Popularization and the Patient in the Eighteenth century; M.Stolberg 'Mediating Sexual Difference': The Medical Understanding of Human Hermaphrodites in Eighteenth-century England; P.Fontes da Costa Mediating Medicine through Private Letters: The Eighteenth-century Catalan Medical World; A.Zarzoso Jules Guérin Makes his Market: The Social Economy of Orthopaedic Medicine in Paris, ca. 1825-1845; C.Malpas Clashing Knowledge-Claims in Nineteenth-century English Vaccination; L.Barrow Sex and the Doctors: The Medicalization of Sexuality as a Two-way Process in early to mid Twentieth-century Britain; H.Cook Hailing a Miracle Drug: The Interferon; T.Pieters Afterword: Cultural Differences in Medicine; M.Ramsey Index