Bernard Mandeville A Treatise Of The Hypochondriack And Hysterick Diseases 1730

Author : Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319577814

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Bernard Mandeville: A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (1730) by Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon Pdf

This work reflects on hypochondria as well as on the global functioning of the human mind and on the place of the patient/physician relationship in the wider organisation of society. First published in 1711, revised and enlarged in 1730, and now edited and published with a critical apparatus for the first time, this is a major work in the history of medical literature as well as a complex literary creation. Composed of three dialogues between a physician and two of his patients, Mandeville’s Treatise mirrors the digressive structure of a talking cure. Thanks to the soothing and enlightening effects of this casual conversation, the physician Mandeville demonstrates the healing power of words for a class of patients that he presents as men of learning who need above all to be addressed in their own language. Mandeville’s aim was to delineate his own cure for hypochondria and hysteria, which consisted of a talking cure followed by diet and exercise, but also to discuss the practice of medicine in England and continental Europe at a time when physicians were beginning to lose ground to apothecaries. Opposing a purely theoretical approach to medicine, Mandeville takes up the principles presented by Francis Bacon, Thomas Sydenham, and Giorgio Baglivi, and advocates a medical practice based on experience and backed up by time-tested theories.

Author : Bernard Mandeville
Publisher : Georg Olms Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Hypochondria
ISBN : UCAL:B5041134

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A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases 1730 by Bernard Mandeville Pdf

Author : Bernard Mandeville
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1379824338

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A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases. In Three Dialogues. By B. Mandeville, M.D. The Second Edition by Bernard Mandeville Pdf

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T060407 Pp.78-79 misnumbered 79-78 respectively. London: printed for J. Tonson, 1730. xxii, [10],380p.; 8°

Author : Allan Ingram
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0853239924

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Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century by Allan Ingram Pdf

Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century draws together extracts from writing about madness between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth centuries, a period that saw a general decline in religious explanations for insanity and a corresponding advance in the professionalization of psychiatry. The book includes extracts from the writings of Johnson, Boswell, Blake and Coleridge.

Author : Edmundo Balsemão Pires,Joaquim Braga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319193816

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Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes by Edmundo Balsemão Pires,Joaquim Braga Pdf

This book integrates studies on the thought of Bernard de Mandeville and other philosophers and historians of Modern Thought. The chapters reflect a rethinking of Mandeville’s legacy and, together, present a comprehensive approach to Mandeville’s work. The book is published on the occasion of the 300 years that have passed since the publication of the Fable of the Bees. Bernard de Mandeville disassembled the dichotomies of traditional moral thinking to show that the outcomes of the social action emerge as new, non-intentional effects from the combination of moral opposites, vice and virtue, in such a form that they lose their moral significance. The work of this great writer, philosopher and physician is interwoven with an awareness of the paradoxical nature of modern society and the challenges that this recognition brings to an adequate perspective on the historical world of modernity.

Author : Robin Douglass
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691224695

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Mandeville’s Fable by Robin Douglass Pdf

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopher Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. In this book, Robin Douglass looks beyond the notoriety of Mandeville’s great work to reclaim its status as one of the most incisive philosophical studies of human nature and the origin of society in the Enlightenment era. Focusing on Mandeville’s moral, social, and political ideas, Douglass offers a revelatory account of why we should take Mandeville seriously as a philosopher. Douglass expertly reconstructs Mandeville’s theory of how self-centred individuals, who care for their reputation and social standing above all else, could live peacefully together in large societies. Pride and shame are the principal motives of human behaviour, on this account, with a large dose of hypocrisy and self-deception lying behind our moral practices. In his analysis, Douglass attends closely to the changes between different editions of the Fable; considers Mandeville’s arguments in light of objections and rival accounts from other eighteenth-century philosophers, including Shaftesbury, Hume, and Smith; and draws on more recent findings from social psychology. With this detailed and original reassessment of Mandeville’s philosophy, Douglass shows how The Fable of the Bees—by shining a light on the dark side of human nature—has the power to unsettle readers even today.

Author : Heather R Beatty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317321095

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Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain by Heather R Beatty Pdf

This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease – a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that ‘nervousness’ was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.

Author : John P. Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139482950

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Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature' by John P. Wright Pdf

David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) presents the most important account of skepticism in the history of modern philosophy. In this lucid and thorough introduction to the work, John P. Wright examines the development of Hume's ideas in the Treatise, their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions, and the reception they received when Hume published the Treatise. He explains Hume's arguments concerning the inability of reason to establish the basic beliefs which underlie science and morals, as well as his arguments showing why we are nevertheless psychologically compelled to accept such beliefs. The book will be a valuable guide for those seeking to understand the nature of modern skepticism and its connection with the founding of the human sciences during the Enlightenment.

Author : Andrea Branchi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004428430

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Pride, Manners, and Morals by Andrea Branchi Pdf

A reading of the Anglo-Dutch physician and thinker’s philosophical project from the hitherto neglected perspective of his lifelong interest in the theme of honour.

Author : Laura Brown
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0801437563

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Fables of Modernity by Laura Brown Pdf

The metropolis : the fable of the city sewer -- Imperial fate : the fable of torrents and oceans -- Finance : the fable of lady credit -- Capitalism : fables of a new world -- Spectacles of cultural contact : the fable of the native prince -- the orangutang, the lap dog, and the parrot : the fable of the nonhuman being.

Author : Andrew Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351918701

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Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe by Andrew Cunningham Pdf

The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. With respect to medicine this means that the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and purposes disappeared. However, there are growing indications in recent scholarship that this may well be an overstatement. Indeed it appears that religion retained many of its customary relations with medicine. This volume explores how far, and the ways in which, this was still the case. It looks at this multi-faceted relationship with respect to among others: medical care and death in hospitals, religious vocation and nursing, chemical medicine and religion, the clergy and medicine, the continued significance of popular medicine, faith healing, dissection and religion, and religious dissent and medical innovation. Within these significant areas the volume provides a European perspective which will make it possible to draw comparisons and determine differences.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315518077

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Doctor of Society by Roy Porter Pdf

First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern thinking about disease, doctors and society. To illustrate this viewpoint, he focuses on Thomas Beddoes, a prominent doctor of the eighteenth century and examines his challenging, pugnacious, radical and often amusing views on a wide range of issues concerning the place of illness and medicine in society. Many modern debates in medicine continue to echo the topics which Beddoes himself discussed in his ever-trenchant and provocative manner. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of medicine, social history and the Enlightenment.

Author : C. Forth,A. Carden-Coyne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403981387

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Cultures of the Abdomen by C. Forth,A. Carden-Coyne Pdf

We live in a world obsessed with abdomens. Whether we call it the belly, tummy, or stomach, we take this area of the body for granted as an object of our gaze, the subject of our obsessions, and the location of deeply felt desires. Diet, nutrition, and exercise all play critical roles in the development of our body images and thus our sense of self, not least because how we are made to feel about bodies (both our own and those of others) is often grounded in dietary and lifestyle choices. Cultures of the Abdomen traces the history of social, cultural, and medical ideas about the stomach and related organs since the seventeenth century, and demonstrates that a focused study of the abdomen is necessary for understanding the deep historical meanings that underscore our contemporary obsessions with hunger, diet, fat, indigestion, and excretion. It locates that history from dietary ideals in early modern Europe to the vexing issue of American fat in the twenty-first century, surveying along the way developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia.

Author : Bernard Mandeville
Publisher : Ayer Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1711
Category : Hypochondria
ISBN : 040507445X

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A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Passions by Bernard Mandeville Pdf

Hysterie.

Author : A. Ingram,S. Sim,C. Lawlor,R. Terry,J. Baker,Leigh Wetherall Dickson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230306592

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Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century by A. Ingram,S. Sim,C. Lawlor,R. Terry,J. Baker,Leigh Wetherall Dickson Pdf

Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience.