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Book SynopsisThis book explores experiences of illness, broadly construed. It encompasses the emotional and sensory disruptions that attend disease, injury, mental illness or trauma, and gives an account of how medical practitioners, experts, lay authorities and the public have felt about such disruptions. Considering all sides of the medical encounter and highlighting the intersection of intellectual history and medical knowledge, of institutional atmospheres, built environments and technological practicalities, and of emotional and sensory experience,
Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History presents a wide-ranging affective account of feeling well and of feeling ill. Especially occupied with the ways in which dynamics of power and authority have either validated or discounted dis-eased feelings, the book's contributors probe at the intersectional politics of medical expertise and patient experience to better understand situated expressions of illness, their reception, and their social, cultura
Trade Review[This] book would be of value to diverse scholars across disciplinary boundaries. ... The history of emotions has achieved a kind of theoretical and methodological sophistication and maturity that allow us to explore how emotions change and why. Feeling Dis-ease is the evidence. * H-Net Reviews *
Many disciplines are represented across the volume, such that interested readers will likely be found in history and psychology departments, as well as in schools of medicine ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty. * CHOICE *
This is an innovative and ambitious volume that brings together a range of themes, disciplinary approaches, time-periods, and places to examine the affective dimensions of health and ill-health. This book is about being both well and sick, and considers the experiences of practitioners, patients, and the public. * Agnes Arnold-Forster, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK *
If there is a handbook on how to write the affective into the history of medicine and health, this is it. Writing during a pandemic, the authors are attuned to the uproars and silences that comprise the emotionally-charged responses to personal and collective suffering from a rich array of perspectives. * Jonathan Reinarz, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK *
Table of ContentsIllustrations Contributors Acknowledgements
Introduction Emotion and Experience in the History of Medicine: Elaborating A Theory and Seeking A Method,
Rob Boddice and Bettina Hitzer Lived Epidemic Commentary 1. Feeling the Dis-Ease of Ebola: An Invisible War,
Emmanuel King Urey-Yarkpawolo 2. Ebola Wahala: Breaching Experiments in a Sierra Leonean Border Town,
Luisa Enria and Angus Fayia Tengbeh 3. History before Corona: Memory, Experience, and Emotions,
Bettina Hitzer Datafication and Knowledge Production Commentary 4. The Binary Logic of Emotion in the Sensorium of Virtual Health: The Case of Happify,
Kirsten Ostherr 5. Third Person: Narrating Dis-Ease and Knowledge in Psychiatric Case Histories,
Marietta Meier Dis-ease Narratives: Making and Listening Commentary 6. Feeling (and Falling) Ill: Finding a Language of Illness,
Franziska Gygax 7. Beyond Symptomology: Listening to How Palestinians Conceive of their own Suffering and Well-being,
Heidi Morrison Expertise, Authority, Emotion Commentary 8. Forensic Sense: Sexual Violence, Medical Professionals, and the Senses,
Joanna Bourke 9. The Concept of
Leidensdruck in West-German Criminal Therapy, 1960-85,
Marcel Streng Construction and Contingency of Experience Commentary 10. The Efficacy of Arcadia: Constructing Emotions of Nature in the Pained Body through Landscape Imagery, c.1945-Present,
Brenda Lynn Edgar 11. ‘Fashionable’ Diseases in Georgian Britain: Medical Theory, Cultural Meanings and Lived Experience,
James Kennaway Material, Objects, Feelings Commentary 12. From a Patient’s Point of View: A Sensual-Perceptual Approach to Bed Treatment,
Monika Ankele 13. Feeling Penfield,
Annmarie Adams Select Bibliography Index
