Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950 » (First Edition)

FAY BOUND ALBERTI is Wellcome Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK. She has researched and published on aspects of the history of medicine, emotions and subjectivity between 1600 and 1900.

Using interdisciplinary techniques and original research findings, Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950 brings together scholars in the history of medicine to address medical theories and beliefs about emotion and disease. It explores such issues as the shift from humoral to nervous interpretations of emotion; the emotional nature of the relationship between medical professionals and their patients; and the extent to which gender might influence the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of pathological emotional conditions.

Foreword   Janet Browne     ix
Acknowledgements     x
Notes on Contributors     xi
Introduction: Emotion Theory and Medical History   Fay Bound Alberti     xiii
Emotions in the Early Modern Medical Tradition   Fay Bound Alberti     1
Patients and Passions: Languages of Medicine and Emotion, 1789-1850   Thomas Dixon     22
Languages and Landscapes of Emotion: Motherhood and Puerperal Insanity in the Nineteenth Century   Hilary Marland     53
'Cold Calculation in the Faces of Horrors?' Pity, Compassion and the Making of Humanitarian Protocols   Bertrand Taithe     79
Sympathy under the Knife: Experimentation and Emotion in Late Victorian Medicine   Paul White     100
Fear and Loathing in the Laboratory and Clinic   Otniel E. Dror     125
From Clever Hans to Michael Balint: Emotion, Influence and the Unconscious in British Medical Practice   Rhodri Hayward     144
Diagnosing with Feeling: The Clinical Assessment of Schizophrenia in Early Twentieth-Century European Psychiatry   Susan Lanzoni     169
Index     191