{"product_id":"feeling-disease-in-modern-history-9781350228405","title":"Feeling Disease in Modern History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eFeeling Dis-ease in Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[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 *\u003cbr\u003eMany 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 *\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003eIf 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations Contributors Acknowledgements   \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e Emotion and Experience in the History of Medicine: Elaborating A Theory and Seeking A Method, \u003ci\u003eRob Boddice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Bettina Hitzer\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eLived Epidemic \u003c\/b\u003e Commentary   1. Feeling the Dis-Ease of Ebola: An Invisible War, \u003ci\u003eEmmanuel King Urey-Yarkpawolo\u003c\/i\u003e  2. Ebola Wahala: Breaching Experiments in a Sierra Leonean Border Town, \u003ci\u003eLuisa Enria and Angus Fayia Tengbeh \u003c\/i\u003e 3. History before Corona: Memory, Experience, and Emotions, \u003ci\u003eBettina Hitzer\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eDatafication and Knowledge Production \u003c\/b\u003e Commentary    4. The Binary Logic of Emotion in the Sensorium of Virtual Health: The Case of Happify, \u003ci\u003eKirsten Ostherr\u003c\/i\u003e  5. Third Person: Narrating Dis-Ease and Knowledge in Psychiatric Case Histories, \u003ci\u003eMarietta Meier\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eDis-ease Narratives: Making and Listening \u003c\/b\u003e Commentary   6. Feeling (and Falling) Ill: Finding a Language of Illness, \u003ci\u003eFranziska Gygax\u003c\/i\u003e  7. Beyond Symptomology: Listening to How Palestinians Conceive of their own Suffering and Well-being, \u003ci\u003eHeidi Morrison\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eExpertise, Authority, Emotion \u003c\/b\u003e Commentary    8. Forensic Sense: Sexual Violence, Medical Professionals, and the Senses, \u003ci\u003eJoanna Bourke\u003c\/i\u003e  9. The Concept of \u003ci\u003eLeidensdruck\u003c\/i\u003e in West-German Criminal Therapy, 1960-85, \u003ci\u003eMarcel Streng\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eConstruction and Contingency of Experience \u003c\/b\u003e Commentary    10. The Efficacy of Arcadia: Constructing Emotions of Nature in the Pained Body through Landscape Imagery, c.1945-Present, \u003ci\u003eBrenda Lynn Edgar\u003c\/i\u003e  11. ‘Fashionable’ Diseases in Georgian Britain: Medical Theory, Cultural Meanings and Lived Experience, \u003ci\u003eJames Kennaway\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eMaterial, Objects, Feelings \u003c\/b\u003e Commentary    12. From a Patient’s Point of View: A Sensual-Perceptual Approach to Bed Treatment, \u003ci\u003eMonika Ankele \u003c\/i\u003e 13. Feeling Penfield, \u003ci\u003eAnnmarie Adams\u003c\/i\u003e    Select Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019640570199,"sku":"9781350228405","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350228405.jpg?v=1750780874","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/feeling-disease-in-modern-history-9781350228405","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}