Author: J. Moscoso
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137284234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain.
Pain
Author: J. Moscoso
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137284234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137284234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain.
The History of Pain
Author: Roselyne Rey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674399686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This text draws on multidisciplinary sources to explore the concept of pain as it has been seen by different cultures over the course of history. It highlights the transformation in humanity's relationship to pain and chronicles the progress made in its understanding and treatment.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674399686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This text draws on multidisciplinary sources to explore the concept of pain as it has been seen by different cultures over the course of history. It highlights the transformation in humanity's relationship to pain and chronicles the progress made in its understanding and treatment.
Lamaze
Author: Paula A. Michaels
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199738645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Reveals the surprising history of the Lamaze method of childbirth, also known as psychoprophylaxis, by tracing this psychological, non-pharmacological approach to obstetric pain relief from its origins in the USSR in the 1940s, to France in the 1950s, and to the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199738645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Reveals the surprising history of the Lamaze method of childbirth, also known as psychoprophylaxis, by tracing this psychological, non-pharmacological approach to obstetric pain relief from its origins in the USSR in the 1940s, to France in the 1950s, and to the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.
From Gluttony to Enlightenment
Author: Viktoria von Hoffmann
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252099087
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Scorned since antiquity as low and animal, the sense of taste is celebrated today as an ally of joy, a source of adventure, and an arena for pursuing sophistication. The French exalted taste as an entrée to ecstasy, and revolutionized their cuisine and language to express this new way of engaging with the world. Viktoria von Hoffmann explores four kinds of early modern texts--culinary, medical, religious, and philosophical--to follow taste's ascent from the sinful to the beautiful. Combining food studies and sensory history, she takes readers on an odyssey that redefined a fundamental human experience. Scholars and cooks rediscovered a vast array of ways to prepare and present foods. Far-sailing fleets returned to Europe bursting with new vegetables, exotic fruits, and pungent spices. Hosts refined notions of hospitality in the home while philosophers pondered the body and its perceptions. As von Hoffmann shows, these labors produced a sea change in perception and thought, one that moved taste from the base realm of the tongue to the ethereal heights of aesthetics.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252099087
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Scorned since antiquity as low and animal, the sense of taste is celebrated today as an ally of joy, a source of adventure, and an arena for pursuing sophistication. The French exalted taste as an entrée to ecstasy, and revolutionized their cuisine and language to express this new way of engaging with the world. Viktoria von Hoffmann explores four kinds of early modern texts--culinary, medical, religious, and philosophical--to follow taste's ascent from the sinful to the beautiful. Combining food studies and sensory history, she takes readers on an odyssey that redefined a fundamental human experience. Scholars and cooks rediscovered a vast array of ways to prepare and present foods. Far-sailing fleets returned to Europe bursting with new vegetables, exotic fruits, and pungent spices. Hosts refined notions of hospitality in the home while philosophers pondered the body and its perceptions. As von Hoffmann shows, these labors produced a sea change in perception and thought, one that moved taste from the base realm of the tongue to the ethereal heights of aesthetics.
Gregorianum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Drugging France
Author: Sara E. Black
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 022801252X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, drug consumption permeated French society to produce a new norm: the chemical enhancement of modern life. French citizens empowered themselves by seeking pharmaceutical relief for their suffering and engaging in self-medication. Doctors and pharmacists, meanwhile, fashioned themselves as gatekeepers to these potent drugs, claiming that their expertise could shield the public from accidental harm. Despite these efforts, the unanticipated phenomenon of addiction laid bare both the embodied nature of the modern self and the inherent instability of the notions of individual free will and responsibility. Drugging France explores the history of mind-altering drugs in medical practice between 1840 and 1920, highlighting the intricate medical histories of opium, morphine, ether, chloroform, cocaine, and hashish. While most drug histories focus on how drugs became regulated and criminalized as dangerous addictive substances, Sara Black instead traces the spread of these drugs through French society, demonstrating how new therapeutic norms and practices of drug consumption transformed the lives of French citizens as they came to expect and even demand pharmaceutical solutions to their pain. Through self-experimentation, doctors developed new knowledge about these drugs, transforming exotic botanical substances and unpredictable chemicals into reliable pharmaceutical commodities that would act on the mind and body to modify pain, sensation, and consciousness. From the pharmacy counter to the boudoir, from the courtroom to the operating theatre, from the battlefield to the birthing chamber, Drugging France explores how everyday encounters with drugs reconfigured how people experienced their own minds and bodies.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 022801252X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, drug consumption permeated French society to produce a new norm: the chemical enhancement of modern life. French citizens empowered themselves by seeking pharmaceutical relief for their suffering and engaging in self-medication. Doctors and pharmacists, meanwhile, fashioned themselves as gatekeepers to these potent drugs, claiming that their expertise could shield the public from accidental harm. Despite these efforts, the unanticipated phenomenon of addiction laid bare both the embodied nature of the modern self and the inherent instability of the notions of individual free will and responsibility. Drugging France explores the history of mind-altering drugs in medical practice between 1840 and 1920, highlighting the intricate medical histories of opium, morphine, ether, chloroform, cocaine, and hashish. While most drug histories focus on how drugs became regulated and criminalized as dangerous addictive substances, Sara Black instead traces the spread of these drugs through French society, demonstrating how new therapeutic norms and practices of drug consumption transformed the lives of French citizens as they came to expect and even demand pharmaceutical solutions to their pain. Through self-experimentation, doctors developed new knowledge about these drugs, transforming exotic botanical substances and unpredictable chemicals into reliable pharmaceutical commodities that would act on the mind and body to modify pain, sensation, and consciousness. From the pharmacy counter to the boudoir, from the courtroom to the operating theatre, from the battlefield to the birthing chamber, Drugging France explores how everyday encounters with drugs reconfigured how people experienced their own minds and bodies.
Affaires de Famille
Author: Marie-Claire Barnet
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042021705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
What are families like in contemporary France? And what begins to emerge when we consider them from the point of view of recent theoretical perspectives: (faulty) cohesion, (fake) coherence, (carefully planned or subversive) deconstruction, loss (of love, confidence or credibility), or, even (utter) chaos and (alarming) confusion? Which media revamp old stereotypes, generate alternative reinterpretations, and imply more ambiguous answers? ...]Uneasy contradictions and ambiguities emerge in this bilingual collection of approaches and genre studies. The family plot seems to thicken as family ties appear to loosen. Has the family' been lost from sight, or is it being reinvented in our collective imaginary? This book proposes a new series of perspectives and questions on an old and familiar' topic, exploring the state and status of the family in contemporary literature, culture, critical and psychoanalytic theory and sociology.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042021705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
What are families like in contemporary France? And what begins to emerge when we consider them from the point of view of recent theoretical perspectives: (faulty) cohesion, (fake) coherence, (carefully planned or subversive) deconstruction, loss (of love, confidence or credibility), or, even (utter) chaos and (alarming) confusion? Which media revamp old stereotypes, generate alternative reinterpretations, and imply more ambiguous answers? ...]Uneasy contradictions and ambiguities emerge in this bilingual collection of approaches and genre studies. The family plot seems to thicken as family ties appear to loosen. Has the family' been lost from sight, or is it being reinvented in our collective imaginary? This book proposes a new series of perspectives and questions on an old and familiar' topic, exploring the state and status of the family in contemporary literature, culture, critical and psychoanalytic theory and sociology.
'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts
Author: Brigitte Maire
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004273867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Latin medical texts transmit medical theories and practices that originated mainly in Greece. This interaction took place through juxtaposition, assimilation and transformation of ideas. 'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts studies the ways in which this cultural interaction influenced the development of the medical profession and the growth of knowledge of human and animal bodies, and especially how it provided the foundations for innovations in the areas of anatomy, pathology and pharmacology, from the earliest Latin medical texts until well into the medieval world.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004273867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Latin medical texts transmit medical theories and practices that originated mainly in Greece. This interaction took place through juxtaposition, assimilation and transformation of ideas. 'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts studies the ways in which this cultural interaction influenced the development of the medical profession and the growth of knowledge of human and animal bodies, and especially how it provided the foundations for innovations in the areas of anatomy, pathology and pharmacology, from the earliest Latin medical texts until well into the medieval world.
Author:
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738172288
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738172288
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Histoire de la douleur
Author: Roselyne Rey
Publisher: La Découverte
ISBN: 2707195707
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : fr
Pages : 658
Book Description
De l'Antiquité grecque au XX e siècle, ce livre dséormais classique fait se confronter, pour chaque période, les représentations culturelles de la douleur, les théories médicales élaborées pour en élucider les mécanismes et les thérapeutiques mises en œuvre pour soulager le patient. La douleur relève-t-elle du normal ou du pathologique ? Est-elle une sensation ou une émotion ? Elle demeure pour l'homme une énigme. Il la ressent comme incompréhensible ou incommunicable, irréductiblement singulière. Pourtant, cette expérience partagée par tous revêt aussi une dimension sociale et culturelle. Mal absolu à fuir à tout prix pour la plupart, signal d'alarme utile pour certains, source de valeur morale et de connaissance de soi pour d'autres, la douleur a fait l'objet, au cours des siècles, d'approches multiples et contradictoires. C'est l'évolution des savoirs et des pratiques en Occident que Roselyne Rey retrace dans ce livre original. De l'Antiquité grecque au XXe siècle, elle confronte pour chaque période les représentations culturelles de la douleur, les théories médicales élaborées pour en élucider les mécanismes et les thérapeutiques mises en œuvre pour soulager le patient. Cette mise en perspective, d'une grande précision historique et d'une remarquable érudition, fait ressortir l'extraordinaire transformation du rapport des hommes à la douleur, les progrès accomplis dans sa compréhension et, de manière inégale dans son traitement. Par son approche pluridisciplinaire, cette histoire de la douleur s'adresse autant aux historiens et au médecins qu'au grand public cultivé.
Publisher: La Découverte
ISBN: 2707195707
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : fr
Pages : 658
Book Description
De l'Antiquité grecque au XX e siècle, ce livre dséormais classique fait se confronter, pour chaque période, les représentations culturelles de la douleur, les théories médicales élaborées pour en élucider les mécanismes et les thérapeutiques mises en œuvre pour soulager le patient. La douleur relève-t-elle du normal ou du pathologique ? Est-elle une sensation ou une émotion ? Elle demeure pour l'homme une énigme. Il la ressent comme incompréhensible ou incommunicable, irréductiblement singulière. Pourtant, cette expérience partagée par tous revêt aussi une dimension sociale et culturelle. Mal absolu à fuir à tout prix pour la plupart, signal d'alarme utile pour certains, source de valeur morale et de connaissance de soi pour d'autres, la douleur a fait l'objet, au cours des siècles, d'approches multiples et contradictoires. C'est l'évolution des savoirs et des pratiques en Occident que Roselyne Rey retrace dans ce livre original. De l'Antiquité grecque au XXe siècle, elle confronte pour chaque période les représentations culturelles de la douleur, les théories médicales élaborées pour en élucider les mécanismes et les thérapeutiques mises en œuvre pour soulager le patient. Cette mise en perspective, d'une grande précision historique et d'une remarquable érudition, fait ressortir l'extraordinaire transformation du rapport des hommes à la douleur, les progrès accomplis dans sa compréhension et, de manière inégale dans son traitement. Par son approche pluridisciplinaire, cette histoire de la douleur s'adresse autant aux historiens et au médecins qu'au grand public cultivé.