Gout : The Patrician Malady Paperback / softback
by Roy Porter, G. S. Rousseau
Paperback / softback
Description
Gout has fascinated medical writers and cultural commentators from the time of ancient Greece.
Historically seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius, and creativity, it has included among its sufferers Erasmus, the Medici, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, and Robert Browning.
Gout has also been the subject of powerful medical folklore, viewed as a disease that protects its sufferers and assures long life.
This dazzlingly insightful and readable book investigates the history of gout and through it offers a new perspective on medical and social history, sex, prejudice, and class, and explains why gout was gender specific.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:408 pages, 34 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:11/03/2000
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- ISBN:9780300082746
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:408 pages, 34 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:11/03/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300082746