Bernard Mandeville: A Treatise of the Hypo...

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Beschreibung

This work reflects on hypochondria as well as on the global functioning of the human mind and on the place of the patient/physician relationship in the wider organisation of society. First published in 1711, revised and enlarged in 1730, and now edited and published with a critical apparatus for the first time, this is a major work in the history of medical literature as well as a complex literary creation. Composed of three dialogues between a physician and two of his patients, Mandeville¿s Treatise mirrors the digressive structure of a talking cure. Thanks to the soothing and enlightening effects of this casual conversation, the physician Mandeville demonstrates the healing power of words for a class of patients that he presents as men of learning who need above all to be addressed in their own language. Mandeville¿s aim was to delineate his own cure for hypochondria and hysteria, which consisted of a talking cure followed by diet and exercise, but also to discuss the practice of medicine in England and continental Europe at a time when physicians were beginning to lose ground to apothecaries. Opposing a purely theoretical approach to medicine, Mandeville takes up the principles presented by Francis Bacon, Thomas Sydenham, and Giorgio Baglivi, and advocates a medical practice based on experience and backed up by time-tested theories.

Über den Autor

Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon is assistant professor in English literature at the University of Paris VIII. A specialist of XVIIIth century British literature, she has mainly written on XVIIIth-century Scotland, British literature of the XVIIIth century, translation in England and France during the Enlightenment and the relationship between medicine and literature.

Zusammenfassung

Presents a major text on hypochondria and hysteria by a major 18th century philosopher

Shows that Mandeville may be seen as the rightful precursor of the Freudian talking cure

Makes available a work that has been unavailable for more than thirty years

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on the Text.- Introduction.- Chapter 1. Mandeville's 1711 preface.- Chapter 2. Mandeville's 1730 preface.- Chapter 3. First dialogue.- Chapter 4. Second dialogue.- Chapter 5. Third dialogue.- Select bibliography.- Index.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	ix 238 S. 9 s/w Illustr. 238 p. 9 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783319577791
ISBN-10:	3319577794
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Redaktion:	Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie
Herausgeber:	Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon
Auflage:	1st edition 2017
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	241 x 160 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.10.2017
Gewicht:	0,541 kg