Gout: The Partrician Malady - Softcover

Porter, Roy; Rousseau, George S.; Rousseau, G.

 
9780300082746: Gout: The Partrician Malady
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300082746 ISBN 13: 9780300082746
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Gout has fascinated medical writers and cultural commentators from the time of ancient Greece. Historically seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius, and creativity, it has included among its sufferers Erasmus, the Medici, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, and Robert Browning. Gout has also been the subject of powerful medical folklore, viewed as a disease that protects its sufferers and assures long life. This dazzlingly insightful and readable book investigates the history of gout and through it offers a new perspective on medical and social history, sex, prejudice, and class, and explains why gout was gender specific.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roy Porter is professor of the social history of medicine at the Wellcome Institute, University College, London. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950 (ISBN 0 300 06221 4, #25.00), also published by Yale University Press. G.S. Rousseau has been the Regius Professor of English at King's College, Aberdeen, and in 1998-2001 holder of a Leverhulme Trust Award to work on literature and the culture of medicine in history.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300082746
ISBN 13 
9780300082746
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
408
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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