Edward Beasley

A Male Hysteria

Diabetes and the Victorian Mind

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book explores the history and treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the nineteenth-century understanding of the disease and medicine's attempts to grapple with the disorder for the past two centuries"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781606189016
• ISBN-10: 1606189018
• Artikelnr.: 69525191

Autorenporträt

Edward Beasley is Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University. He is the author of several books on how people thought about empire and race in nineteenth-century England, including The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences (2010) and The Chartist General: Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism (2017). He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Andrew Scull is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California San Diego, and one of the world's foremost historians of medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Abbreviations ix
Preface: Diabetes Then and Now by Andrew Scull xiii
Chapter 1. Introduction 1
Chapter 2. Diabetes Before Bernard 23
Chapter 3. Bernard's Revolution and the Diabetes of the Brain 49
Chapter 4. Diabetes and Medical Science= After Bernard 68
Chapter 5. Robert Saundby's Statistical and Clinical Response 95
Chapter 6. Hysteria and Henry Maudsley 112
Chapter 7. The Cultural Context 135
Chapter 8. The Lives Affected: Diabetes in the DNB 155
Chapter 9. Diabetes at the Spa 175
Chapter 10. From the Brain to the Pancreas 193
Chapter 11. Insulin and After 209
Chapter 12. Conclusions 235
Notes 247
Bibliography 357
Index 409
Acknowledgments