Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness

by Rob Boddice

Book Overview

This book explores experiences of illness, broadly construed. It encompasses the emotional and sensory disruptions that attend disease, injury, mental illness or trauma, and gives an account of how medical practitioners, experts, lay authorities and the public have felt about such disruptions.

Considering all sides of the medical encounter and highlighting the intersection of intellectual history and medical knowledge, of institutional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350228400
• ISBN13: 9781350228405
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"