Author: Porter, Roy, & Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian)
Title: Gout: The Patrician Malady
Description: New Haven [CT], Yale University Press, 1998. orig.boards. 24x15cm, xiv,393 pp.. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Histories: The Classical Inheritance; Prometheus's Vulture: The Renaissance Fashioning of Gout; Science & Sydenham; The 18th-Century Medical Debates; Cultures: Gout & the Georgian Gentlemen; Smollett, Cadogan & Controversy; Change & Continuity, 1790-1850; Indian Summer: Romantic & Victorian Gout; Gout & Glory: Garrod & After; Goutometries: Podagra Ludens: Disease & Discourse: Ludic Representations; The Lucianic & Menippean Heritage; The Rhetoric of Swelling; Homo Ludens & the Neo- Lucianic Heritage; The Metaphoric Heritage; Gout: The Visual Heritage. [" Porter is a well-known medical historian at the Wellcome Institute in London and author of The Greatest Benefit to Mankind... perhaps the best general history of medicine available today. Rousseau is an English professor at the University of Aberdeen. Together, they have written a thorough and enlightening history of gout, whose most famous sufferers included Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon. They explore the medical establishment's changing views of gout and the public's reaction to the disease. They also examine the idea that gout was a disease of the wealthy and the graphic images of gout in the media. Particular attention is paid to the disease's literary aspects and how it has been portrayed in the novels of such authors as Dickens and Thackeray..." - Eric D. Albright, in 'Library Journal' (1998)]

Keywords: History of Medicine, Gout, Disease, Cultural Historical, Medical Literary, Arthritis uratica, , ,