Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History (2003)

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Contributors Introduction Framing the Frame: the Imagining and Framing of Disease in Cultural History; G.S.Rousseau PART I: FRAMING AND IMAGINING DISEASE Within the Frame: Self-Starvation and the Making of Culture; C.Albano Imagining Smallpox in the Long Eighteenth Century: Inscription and Interpretation; D.E.Shuttleton "This Pestilence Which Walketh in Darkness" New York City Reads the 1832 Cholera Epidemic; J.Weiss Mapping Colonial Disease: Victorian Medical Cartography in British India; P.K.Gilbert Framing the "Magic Mountain Malady" The Reception of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain in the Medical Community, 1924-2000; M.Herwig PART II: FRAMING AND IMAGINING MADNESS "A Little Bit Mad/Almost Mad/Not Quite Mad" Eccentricity and the Framing of Madness in Nineteenth-Century French Culture; M.Gill Retrospective Medicine, Hypnosis, Hysteria and French Literature, 1875-1895; M.R.Finn Shifting Conceptions of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Therapies in Hungary, 1858-1908; E.Lafferton PART III: THE PATIENT'S NARRATIVES AND IMAGES Name Disease or Voice Sickness? The Patient's Contribution; P.Rieder Framing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Gut: Genius, Digestion, Hypochondria; G.S.Rousseau & D.B.Haycock PART IV: TOWARDS A POETICS AND METAPHORICS OF DISEASE Paradoxical Diseases in the Late Renaissance: The Cases of Syphilis and Plague; A.Steczowicz Proved on the Pulses: Heart Disease in Victorian Culture; K.Blair Tropenkoller: The Interdiscursive Poetics of a German Colonial Syndrome; S.Besser Index