Gut Brain And Environment In Nineteenth Century French Literature And Medicine

Author : Manon Mathias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1032427817

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Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine by Manon Mathias Pdf

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol but as an agent within a network of relationships between body and mind and between humans and environment. By analysing gastrointestinal health in medical, literary, and philosophical texts, this volume rethinks the intersections between literature and health in the nineteenth century and triggers new debates about France's relationship with food. Of relevance to scholars of literature and to historians and sociologists of science, food, and medicine, it will provide ideal reading for students of French Literature and Culture, History, Cultural Studies, and History of Science and Medicine, Literature and Science, Food Studies, and the Medical Humanities. Readers will be introduced to new ways of approaching digestion in this period and will gain appreciation of the powerful resources offered by nineteenth-century French writing in understanding the nature of connections between gut, mind, and environment and the impact of these connections on our status as human beings.

Author : Manon Mathias
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040022184

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Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine by Manon Mathias Pdf

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol but as an agent within a network of relationships between body and mind and between humans and environment. By analysing gastrointestinal health in medical, literary, and philosophical texts, this volume rethinks the intersections between literature and health in the nineteenth century and triggers new debates about France’s relationship with food. Of relevance to scholars of literature and to historians and sociologists of science, food, and medicine, it will provide ideal reading for students of French Literature and Culture, History, Cultural Studies, and History of Science and Medicine, Literature and Science, Food Studies, and the Medical Humanities. Readers will be introduced to new ways of approaching digestion in this period and will gain appreciation of the powerful resources offered by nineteenth-century French writing in understanding the nature of connections between gut, mind, and environment and the impact of these connections on our status as human beings.

Author : Manon Mathias,Alison M. Moore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030018573

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Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture by Manon Mathias,Alison M. Moore Pdf

This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific research fields. Bringing together eleven scholars with wide interdisciplinary expertise, the volume examines literal and metaphorical digestion in different spheres of nineteenth-century life. Digestive health is examined in three sections in relation to science, politics and literature during the period, focusing on Northern America, Europe and Australia. Using diverse methodologies, the essays demonstrate that the long nineteenth century was an important moment in the Western understanding and perception of the gastroenterological system and its relation to the mind in the sense of cognition, mental wellbeing, and the emotions. This collection explores how medical breakthroughs are often historically preceded by intuitive models imagined throughout a range of cultural productions.

Author : Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge,Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History of Medicine, 19th Cent. / France
ISBN : 9051835612

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French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century by Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge,Mordechai Feingold Pdf

The eleven essays in this volume illustrate the richness, complexity, and diversity of French medical culture in the nineteenth century, a period that witnessed the medicalization of French society. Medical themes permeated contemporary culture and politics, and medical discourse infused many levels of French society from the bastions of science - the medical faculties and research institutions - to novels, the theater, and the daily lives of citizens as patients. The contributors to this volume - all established scholars in the history of medicine - present the French medical experience from the point of view of both practitioners and patients, and show how medical themes colored popular perceptions and shaped public policies. Topics addressed range from popular medicine to elite Parisian medicine, the interaction of literary and medical discourse, social theater, medical research and practice, medical specialization and education. The essays reflect current trends of medico-historical analysis which emphasize the centrality of class, race, and gender in understanding concepts of disease and the practice of medicine. They show how the medical experience of patients, practitioners, students, and researchers varied according to social class, gender, and geography and the importance of these factors for the construction of disease.

Author : Sophie Leroy
Publisher : Brill/Rodopi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Diseases in literature
ISBN : 9004367993

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Medicine and Maladies by Sophie Leroy Pdf

Medicine and Maladies explores the socio-political and medical contexts that inform depictions of affliction in nineteenth-century France. It asks how cultural representations appropriate, critique, or develop medical discourse, and how medical writings incorporate literary examples to illustrate scientific hypotheses.

Author : Başak Ağın,Şafak Horzum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000587784

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Posthuman Pathogenesis by Başak Ağın,Şafak Horzum Pdf

This multi-vocal assemblage of literary and cultural responses to contagions provides insights into the companionship of posthumanities, environmental humanities, and medical humanities to shed light on how we deal with complex issues like communicable diseases in contemporary times. Examining imaginary and real contagions, ranging from Jeep and SHEVA to plague, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19, Posthuman Pathogenesis discusses the inextricable links between nature and culture, matter and meaning-making practices, and the human and the nonhuman. Dissecting pathogenic nonhuman bodies in their interactions with their human counterparts and the environment, the authors of this volume raise their diverse voices with two primary aims: to analyse how contagions trigger a drive to survival, and chaotic, liberating, and captivating impulses, and to focus on the viral interpolations in socio-political and environmental systems as a meeting point of science, technology, and fiction, blending social reality and myth. Following the premises of the post-qualitative turn and presenting a differentiated experience of contagion, this ‘rhizomatic’ compilation thus offers a non-hierarchised array of essays, composed of a multiplicity of genders, geographies, and generations.

Author : Steve Ellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521882893

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Virginia Woolf and the Victorians by Steve Ellis Pdf

Criticism of Woolf is often polarised into viewing her work as either fundamentally progressive or reactionary. In this 2007 book, Steve Ellis argues that her commitment to anxiety about modernity coexists with a nostalgia and respect for aspects of Victorian culture threatened by radical social change. Ellis tracks Woolf's response to the Victorian era through her fiction and other writings, arguing that Woolf can be seen as more 'Post-Victorian' than 'modernist'. He explains how Woolf's emphasis on continuity and reconciliation related to twentieth-century debates about Victorian values, and he analyses her response to the First World War as the major threat to that continuity. This detailed and original investigation of the range of Woolf's writing attends to questions of cultural and political history and fictional structure, imagery and diction. It proposes a fresh reading of Woolf's thinking about the relationships between the past, present and future.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521864268

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The Cambridge History of Medicine by Roy Porter Pdf

Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.

Author : David S. Barnes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520915176

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The Making of a Social Disease by David S. Barnes Pdf

In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease—ranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later view of a scourge spread by the poor—owed more to the power structures of nineteenth-century society than to medical science. By 1900, the war against tuberculosis had become a war against the dirty habits of the working class. Lucid and original, Barnes's study broadens our understanding of how and why societies assign moral meanings to deadly diseases.

Author : Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307807892

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Doctors by Sherwin B. Nuland Pdf

From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Australia
ISBN : UOM:39015079938547

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APAIS, Australian Public Affairs Information Service by Anonim Pdf

Vol. for 1963 includes section Current Australian serials; a subject list.

Author : Brittany Pladek
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786942838

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The Poetics of Palliation by Brittany Pladek Pdf

The Poetics of Palliation argues that Romanticism developed richer literary therapies than its contemporary reception remembers. By reading Romantic writers against Georgian medical ethics, Poetics recovers their models of literature as comfort and sustenance, challenging a health humanities tradition that sees literary therapy primarily as cure.

Author : Grace McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000416824

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Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare by Grace McCarthy Pdf

Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare synthesizes Laura Mulvey’s male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s stare into a new critical lens, the filmic stare, in order to understand and analyze the visual construction of disability in adaptations of Shakespearean drama. The book explores the intersections of adaptation studies, film studies, Shakespeare studies, and disability studies to analyze twentieth and twenty-first century representations of both physical disability and ‘madness’ in global cinematic film, television film, and digital broadcast cinema in Shakespeare’s works. Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare argues that the filmic stare does not differentiate between male and female characters with disabilities, or between powerful and powerless figures in disability representation. This multi-disciplinary volume is ideal for disability studies scholars, Shakespeare scholars, and those interested in adaptations of Shakespeare’s famous works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OSU:32436001303955

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Cumulated Index Medicus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrea Wulf
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781984897992

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Magnificent Rebels by Andrea Wulf Pdf

A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • The Washington Post "Make[s] the reader feel as if they were in the room with the great personalities of the age, bearing witness to their insights and their vanities and rages.” —Lauren Groff, New York Times best-selling author of Matrix When did we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect to have the right to determine our own lives? When did we first ask the question, How can I be free? It all began in a quiet university town in Germany in the 1790s, when a group of playwrights, poets, and writers put the self at center stage in their thinking, their writing, and their lives. This brilliant circle included the famous poets Goethe, Schiller, and Novalis; the visionary philosophers Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel; the contentious Schlegel brothers; and, in a wonderful cameo, Alexander von Humboldt. And at the heart of this group was the formidable Caroline Schlegel, who sparked their dazzling conversations about the self, nature, identity, and freedom. The French revolutionaries may have changed the political landscape of Europe, but the young Romantics incited a revolution of the mind that transformed our world forever. We are still empowered by their daring leap into the self, and by their radical notions of the creative potential of the individual, the highest aspirations of art and science, the unity of nature, and the true meaning of freedom. We also still walk the same tightrope between meaningful self-fulfillment and destructive narcissism, between the rights of the individual and our responsibilities toward our community and future generations. At the heart of this inspiring book is the extremely modern tension between the dangers of selfishness and the thrilling possibilities of free will.