Description
Book SynopsisBroad in scope and sweep, Hamlin's study is a reflection of how the meanings of diseases continue to shift, affecting not only the identities we create but often our ability to survive.
Trade ReviewHamlin expounds, with grace, wit and learning, the thinking of many of the major figures of medicine... Hamlin trawls medicine's history with great effect, uncovering a number of forgotten figures who had their own ideas about the causes, consequences and treatment of fever. -- W.F. Bynum Times Literary Supplement A senior historian of disease and public health, Hamlin displays considerable breadth and depth in his knowledge of medical theory and practice from different eras... What makes the book most impressive and compelling is Hamlin's ability to integrate the history of medicine and science with social and cultural history. PsycCRITIQUES
Table of ContentsForeword, by Charles E. Rosenberg
Acknowledgments
1. More Than HOT
Part I: The Fevers of Classical Medicines
2. Words
3. Books
Part II: Fever as Social
4. Communities
5. Selves
Part III: Fever Becomes Modern
6. Facts
7. Naming the Wild
8. Numbers and Nurses
Part IV: Fever, Modern and Poer-Modern
9. Machines, Mothers, Sex, and Zombies
Notes
Index
