From the mind into the body : the cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms / Edward Shorter
- Bib ID:
- 19034
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Shorter, Edward
- Description:
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- New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994
- ix, 268 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0029286662
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Play of Biology and Culture. The Evidence of Biology. Psychosomatic Illness: A Biological Basis? The Play of Culture
- 2. Chronic Illness in the Comfortable Classes. Psychosomatic Illness and Social Class. Chronic Illness. Wealthy Invalids. The Bed Cases. Battlefield Abdomen
- 3. Women at Risk. Women's Greater Risk: Not a Myth. Somatic Styles. The Role of Economic and Physical Misery. Trauma. Disappointment and Enmeshment. The Matriarch. Were There Only Female Invalids? Constant Themes
- 4. Ethnic Components. The Psychosomatic Symptoms of Jews. Jewish and Non-Jewish Perspectives. East European Jews as Hypochondriacal Patients
- 5. The Cultural Face of Melancholy. Physical Symptoms and Depression. Melancholia. Nonmelancholic Depression in Past Times. Changes in the Physical Experience of Depression
- 6. Youth and Psychosomatic Illness. The Symptom of Self-Starvation. How Symptoms Are Created. Loss of Appetite and the Launching of Anorexia Nervosa.
- One Symptom Among Many. Culture and Fat. Middle-Class Life and Intimacy. Do Doctors Make Their Patients Sick?
- 7. Cultural Shaping. An Example from the 1990s. An Intellectual Context. Social and Medical Correctness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Medicine, Psychosomatic -- Cross-cultural studies -- History
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1993
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