UID:
almahu_9949434648702882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xi, 260 pages).
ISBN:
9780429028298
,
0429028296
,
9780429647857
,
0429647859
,
9780429650499
,
0429650493
,
9780429645211
,
042964521X
Serie:
Routledge studies in cultural history
Inhalt:
Very few people have not at some point in their lives believed themselves or their loved ones to be reasonably healthy when, in "reality", sickness was encroaching or never went away. Health has been deceiving us for thousands of years, but rarely have we entirely dispensed with it as a concept. This book sets out to establish why and how that might be. The first of its kind, this longue durée historical study explores some of the ways in which people in western societies and cultures have come to believe that they, or other people, have perceived or misperceived health, well-being and euphoria--a word which, before the twentieth century, usually named the experience of health. This book draws from a number of areas of historical research, including the histories of convalescence, addiction, madness and Sigmund Freud's interest in Euphorie in his pre-psychoanalytical period.
Anmerkung:
Frances Burney and the loss and restoration of health -- Mistakes, disappointments, and shattered ideals -- Gods, goodness, and going back : meanings and values of health -- Rarities of misperception : freedom from doubt -- The experts : guides to the perception and misperception of health -- Unreason : the unhealthy mind -- Pleasure, delirium, and hypochondria : when the "mad" misperceive their health -- Fin de siècle : decadence, degeneration, and the pleasures of declining health -- Partial insanity : resemblances between the "mad" and the sane -- Addictive medicine : resemblances between oblivion and restoration -- A history of euphoria -- Cocaine, hypnotism, and joyful death : Sigmund Freud in euphorie -- Fools and monsters : a sickness at humanity's heart -- Euphoria Obama : cruel and unusual euphoria.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Milnes, Christopher, author. History of euphoria New York : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780367137229
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780429028298
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429028298
