Product Description: More so than had any of his predecessors in the White House, Franklin D. Roosevelt drew heavily on the thinking of economists as he sought to combat the Great Depression, to mobilize the American economy for war, and to chart a new order for the postwar world...read more

Product Description: Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated. Writers of diverse types have been as active in constructing these meanings as doctors, yet it is only recently that literary traditions have been recognized as a rich archive for these interpretations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Gout has interested 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 medical folklore, viewed as a disease that protects its sufferers and assure long life. This book investigates the history of gout and through it offers a perspective on medical and social history, sex, prejudice and class and explains why gout was gender specific. The authors investigate medical thinking about gout through the ages, from Hippocrates and Galen through Paracelsus and Harvey to Archibald Garrod in the Victorian era and beyond. They discuss the cultural, moral, religious and personal qualities associated with gout, examining social commentary, personal writings, cartoons and visual arts, and imaginative literature (including novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Joseph Conrad). Weaving together all these threads, the authors provide a disease history that integrates the medical and the moral, the scientific and the humanistic, the verbal and the visual across a wide sweep of time. In an era in which we are interested by the ways that disease and health are represented by medicine and the media, an era in which the dialogue between patients and doctors over the naming and blaming of diseases is more intense than ever, this book offers an historical commnetary on many of our major concerns. (view table of contents)

Product Description: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This volume weaves together Rousseau's writings on anthropology and its relationship to thinking about the enlightenment in our time. Rousseau approaches the subject as an eclectic discourse and invokes an interdisciplinary method grounded in the cross-fertilization of modern academic disciplines...read more

Product Description: The Enlightenment was as much an accumulation of modern discourses as a real historical phenomenon, and, according to the author of this text, needs to be re-evaluated in relation to the empirical academic disciplines in which modern practitioners work...read more

Product Description: This three-volume set draws together the writings of Rousseau, which, through his eclectic, cross-disciplinary approach, have profoundly affected our view of the Enlightenment. These "discourses" cover science, medicine, anthropology, historiography and sexuality.

Product Description: An exploration of the unknown dimensions of Enlightenment sexuality, which describes lesbianism and homosexuality in their historical contexts, public prurience and fascination with the sexually bizarre, pornography, prostitution and the victims of sexual malpractices and repression...read more

Product Description: Letters, papers. Sir John Hill. 1714-1775. Eighteenth century.