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Medicine, emotion and disease, 1700-1950 /

Medicine, emotion and disease, 1700-1950 / edited by Fay Bound Alberti. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. - xxviii, 195 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : emotion theory and medical history / Fay Bound Alberti -- Emotions in the early modern medical tradition / Fay Bound Alberti -- Patients and passions : languages of medicine and emotion, 1789-1850 / Thomas Dixon -- Languages and landscapes of emotion : motherhood and puerperal insanity in the nineteenth century / Hilary Marland -- "Cold calculations in the faces of horrors?" : pity, compassion and the making of humanitarian protocols / Bertrand Taithe -- Sympathy under the knife : experimentation and emotion in late victorian medicine / Paul White -- Fear and loathing in the laboratory and clinic / Otniel E. Dror -- From Clever Hans to Michael Balint : emotion, influence and the unconscious in British medical practice / Rhodri Hayward -- Diagnosing with feeling : the clinical assessment of schizophrenia in early twentieth-century European psychiatry / Susan Lanzoni.

1403985375 (cloth) 9781403985378 (cloth)

2006041814


Emotions--Health aspects.
Medicine, Psychosomatic.
Mind and body.

R726.5 / .M437 2006

616.0019