The Letters of Dr. George Cheyne to the Countess of Huntingdon
Author: George Cheyne
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780883054406
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The Letters of Doctor George Cheyne to Samuel Richardson (1723-1743)
Author: George Cheyne
Publisher:
Published: 1943
Total Pages: 706
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Cheyne: The English Malady (1733) (Psychology Revivals)
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1134636881
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘Nerves’ became a highly eligible illness in early Georgian London and Bath. What Freud was for Vienna at the end of the nineteenth-century, George Cheyne was for eighteenth-century fashionable ailments. The English Malady was one of the best known and most influential books of the Georgian age, dealing with what we would now call psychiatric disorders. Such disorders, he contended, should be regarded as diseases of ‘civilization’ and the product of the pressures and affluence of modern life. By making ‘neurosis’ acceptable, even fashionable, Cheyne’s book assumed considerably wider significance during the Enlightenment. Prefaced by a scholarly introduction by Roy Porter, this reprint edition, originally published in 1991 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, places Cheyne and his work in the development of British psychiatry.
Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards
Author: Samuel Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 649
ISBN-13: 1107728932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSamuel Richardson (1689–1761), among the most important and influential English novelists, was also a prolific letter writer. Beyond its extraordinary range, his correspondence holds special interest as that of a practising epistolary novelist, who thought long and hard about the letter as a form. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of his letters. The present volume contains his correspondences with Dr George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards, linked not only by their pronounced medical content but also by their generally unguarded character. An early admirer of Richardson's Pamela (1740–41), Cheyne elicits some of the novelist's most significant statements concerning his own literary practice and tastes. Edwards, an astute literary critic as well as notable sonneteer, draws Richardson into expressing some remarkable insights as a close reader of poetry and prose.
Female Patients in Early Modern Britain
Author: Wendy D. Churchill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1317135962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis investigation contributes to the existing scholarship on women and medicine in early modern Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment of female patients by male professional medical practitioners from 1590 to 1740. In order to obtain a clearer understanding of female illness and medicine during this period, this study examines ailments that were specific and unique to female patients as well as illnesses and conditions that afflicted both female and male patients. Through a qualitative and quantitative analysis of practitioners' records and patients' writings - such as casebooks, diaries and letters - an emphasis is placed on medical practice. Despite the prevalence of females amongst many physicians' casebooks and the existence of sex-based differences in the consultations, diagnoses and treatments of patients, there is no evidence to indicate that either the health or the medical care of females was distinctly disadvantaged by the actions of male practitioners. Instead, the diagnoses and treatments of women were premised on a much deeper and more nuanced understanding of the female body than has previously been implied within the historiography. In turn, their awareness and appreciation of the unique features of female anatomy and physiology meant that male practitioners were sympathetic and accommodating to the needs of individual female patients during this pivotal period in British medicine.
Elizabeth Carter, 1717-1806
Author: Elizabeth Carter
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780874139129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"For each friend and correspondent Miss Carter uses a distinct tone. The contents of her letters are tailored to meet the character, the interests, the concerns, the situation and style of life of the person to whom she is writing; and each letter reflects the particular relationships between Miss Carter and her correspondent."--BOOK JACKET.
Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought 1650-1800
Author: Popkin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-21
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9004620311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bloodless Revolution
Author: Tristram Stuart
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780393052206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow Western Christianity and Eastern philosophy merged to spawn a political movement that had the prohibition of meat at its core.
Medicine in the Enlightenment
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-02-10
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 940120019X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe interpretation of eighteenth-century medicine has been much contested. Some have view it as a wilderness of rationalism and arid theories between the Scientific Revolution and the astonishing changes of the nineteenth-century. Other scholars have emphasized the close and fruitful links between medicine and the Enlightenment, suggesting that medical advance was the very embodiment of the philosphes’ ideal of a practical science that would improve mankind’s lot and foster human happiness. In a series of essays covering Great Britain, France, Germany and other parts of Europe, noted historians debate these issues through detailed examinations of major aspects of eighteenth-century medicine and medical controversy, including such topics as the introduction of smallpox inoculation, the transformation of medical education, and the treatment of the insane. The essays as a whole suggest a positive reading of the transformations in eighteenth-century medicine, while stressing local diversity and uneven development.
Bodies Politic
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2021-03-08
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1861898223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease, and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions of the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. With these images in mind, he explores aspects of being ill alongside the practice of medicine, paying special attention to self-presentations by physicians, surgeons, and quacks, and to changes in practitioners’ public identities over time. Porter also examines the wider symbolic meanings of disease and doctoring and the “body politic.” Porter’s book is packed with outrageous and amusing anecdotes portraying diseased bodies and medical practitioners alike.
