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| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | The Classical Inheritance | 13 |
| 3 | Prometheus's Vulture: The Renaissance Fashioning of Gout | 22 |
| 4 | Science and Sydenham | 36 |
| 5 | The Eighteenth-Century Medical Debates | 48 |
| 6 | Gout and the Georgian Gentleman | 71 |
| 7 | Smollett, Cadogan and Controversy | 93 |
| 8 | Change and Continuity, 1790-1850 | 125 |
| 9 | Indian Summer: Romantic and Victorian Gout | 143 |
| 10 | Gout and Glory: Garrod and After | 173 |
| 11 | Podagra Ludens: Disease and Discourse | 211 |
| I | Podagra ludens: Ludic representations | 211 |
| II | The Lucianic and Menippean heritage | 213 |
| III | The rhetoric of swelling | 216 |
| IV | Homo ludens and the neo-Lucianic heritage | 219 |
| V | The metaphoric heritage | 229 |
| 12 | Gout: The Visual Heritage | 248 |
| Epilogue | 284 | |
| Notes | 286 | |
| Bibliography | 327 | |
| Index | 380 |
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Lenny Fletcher
reviewed Gout: The Patrician Malady on August 09, 2014
Gout
I had no idea from the outside of this book what it was about. After Chapter 1, I still had no idea. It was not until around Chapter 2 that it started to make sense, and to become an enjoyable read.
The author writes about medicine, but he places it within several realms: mythology, history, philosophy, religion, and his own experience, almost as if he were locating it on a dimensional graph. It is easy to think about medicine as being completely scientific, especially with the advent of "evidence-based medicine." I am going to be chewing over the multiple meanings and currents I have found within this book for quite some time.
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