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Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. George Sebastian Rousseau

    1. Priceton University, UK

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  2. Miranda Gill

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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  3. David Haycock

    1. St John’s College, Oxford, UK

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  4. Malte Herwig

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • George Sebastian Rousseau
      Pages 1-48

  5. The Patient’s Narratives and Images

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. Patients and Words: a Lay Medical Culture?

      • Philip Rieder
      Pages 215-230

    3. Framing Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Gut: Genius, Digestion, Hypochondria

      • George Sebastian Rousseau, David Boyd Haycock
      Pages 231-265

  6. Towards a Poetics and Metaphorics of Disease

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
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    2. Paradoxical Diseases in the Late Renaissance: the Cases of Syphilis and Plague

      • Agnieszka Steczowicz
      Pages 269-284

    3. ‘Proved on the Pulses’: Heart Disease in Victorian Culture, 1830–1860

      • Kirstie Blair
      Pages 285-302

    4. Tropenkoller: the Interdiscursive Career of a German Colonial Syndrome

      • Stephan Besser
      Pages 303-320

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 321-329
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Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated. Writers of diverse types have been as active in constructing these meanings as doctors, yet it is only recently that literary traditions have been recognized as a rich archive for these interpretations. These essays focus on the methodological hurdles encountered in retrieving these interpretations, called 'framing' by the authors. Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History aims to explain what has been said about these interpretations and to compare their value.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Priceton University, UK

    George Sebastian Rousseau

  • University of Oxford, UK

    Miranda Gill, Malte Herwig

  • St John’s College, Oxford, UK

    David Haycock

About the editors

CATERINO ALBANO Artakt, London STEPHAN BESSER Researcher, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam KIRSTIE BLAIR Researcher, Keble College, Oxford DAVID BOYD HAYCOCK Researcher, Freelance MICHAEL R. FINN Researcher, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada PAMELA K. GILBERT Researcher, University of Florida, Gainsville MIRANDA GILL Researcher, Christ Church, Oxford MALTE HERWIG Researcher, Merton College, Oxford EMESE LAFFERTON Researcher, University of Budapest, Hungary PHILIP RIEDER Researcher, University of Geneva DAVID E. SHUTTLETON Lecturer, University of Wales, Aberystwyth AGNIESZKA STECZOWICZ Researcher, Lincoln College, Oxford JANE WEISS Researcher, State University of New York College, Old Westbury, New York

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