Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Note on Contributors

Introduction

Framing the Frame: the Imagining and Framing of Disease in Cultural History--G. S. Rousseau

Part I: Framing and Imagining Disease

Within the Frame: Self-Starvation and the Making of Culture--C. Albano

Imagining Smallpox in the Long Eighteenth Century: Inscription and Interpretation--D. E. Shuttleton

"This Pestilence Which Walketh in Darkness": New York City Reads the 1832 Cholera Epidemic--J. Weiss

Mapping Colonial Disease: Victorian Medical Cartography in British India--P. K. Gilbert

Framing the "Magic Mountain Malady". The Reception of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain in the Medical Community, 19242000--M. Herwig

Part II: Framing and Imagining Madness

"A Little Bit Mad/Almost Mad/Not Quite Mad": Eccentricity and the Framing of Madness in NineteenthCentury French Culture--M. Gill

Retrospective Medicine, Hypnosis, Hysteria and French Literature, 1875-1895--M. R. Finn

Shifting Conceptions of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Therapies in Hungary, 1858-1908--E. Lafferton

Part III: The Patient's Narratives and Images

Name Disease or Voice Sickness? The Patient's Contribution--P. Rieder

Framing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Gut: Genius, Digestion, Hypochondria--G. S. Rousseau & D. B. Haycock

Part IV: Towards a Poetics and Metaphorics of Disease

Paradoxical Diseases in the Late Renaissance: The Cases of Syphilis and Plague--A. Steczowicz

Proved on the Pulses: Heart Disease in Victorian Culture--K. Blair

Tropenkoller: The Interdiscursive Poetics of a German Colonial Syndrome--S. Besser

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