Gout, The Patrician Malady.

393 pp., includes index & extensive bibliography; 8vo; cloth in pictorial dust jacket; reproductions.

The authors track medical thinking across the centuries, from Hippocrates and Galen through Paracelcus and Harvey to Archibald Garrod in the Victorian era and beyond.

From Publisher:

Gout has interested 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 medical folklore, viewed as a disease that protects its sufferers and assure long life. This book investigates the history of gout and through it offers a perspective on medical and social history, sex, prejudice and class and explains why gout was gender specific. The authors investigate medical thinking about gout through the ages, from Hippocrates and Galen through Paracelsus and Harvey to Archibald Garrod in the Victorian era and beyond. They discuss the cultural, moral, religious and personal qualities associated with gout, examining social commentary, personal writings, cartoons and visual arts, and imaginative literature (including novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Joseph Conrad).

Product Info

ISBN: 0300073860

ISBN-13: 9780300073867

Publisher: Yale University Press

Year: 1998

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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