Framing Disease Studies in Cultural History

Name: Framing Disease Studies in Cultural History
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ISBN: 9780813517575

ISBN-10: 0813517575

ISBN-13: 9780813517575

Edition: 1992

Authors: Charles E. Rosenberg, Janet Golden

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction Framing Disease: Illness, Society, and History




Framing Disease



From Bright's Disease to End-Stage Renal Disease




Emergence of Rheumatic Fever in the Nineteenth Century




Parasites and the Germ Theory of Disease




"Definite and Material": Coronary Thrombosis and Cardiologists in the 1920s




Disease as Frame



The Medicalization of Suicide in England: Laymen, Physicians, and Cultural Change, 1500-1870




American Physicians' "Discovery" of Homosexuals, 1880-1900: A New Diagnosis in a Changing Society




From Psychiatric Syndrome to "Communicable" Disease: The Case of Anorexia Nervosa




From Myalgic Encephalitis to Yuppie Flu: A History of Chronic Fatigue Syndromes




Negotiating Disease: The Public Arena



The Illusion of Medical Certainty: Silicosis and the Politics of Industrial Disability, 1930-1960




The Legal Art of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Searching for Reliability




Managing Disease: Institutions as Mediators



Quid pro Quo in Chronic Illness: Tuberculosis in Pennsylvania, 1876-1926




Stories of Epilepsy, 1880-1930




Disease as Social Diagnosis



The Sick Poor and the State: Arthur Newsholme on Poverty, Disease, and Responsibility




Henry E. Sigerist: His Interpretations of the History of Disease and the Future of Medicine



List of Contributors


Index