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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781606189009
• ISBN-10: 160618900X
• Artikelnr.: 69526824

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
Preface Diabetes Then and Now by Andrew Scull
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Diabetes Before Bernard
Chapter 3. Bernard's Revolution and the Diabetes of the Brain
Chapter 4. Diabetes and Medical Science after Bernard
Chapter 5. Robert Saundby's Statistical and Clinical Response
Chapter 6. Hysteria and Henry Maudsley
Chapter 7. The Cultural Context
Chapter 8. The Lives Affected: Diabetes in the DNB
Chapter 9. Diabetes at the Spa
Chapter 10. From the Brain to the Pancreas
Chapter 11. Insulin and After
Chapter 12. Conclusion