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UNINA9910255206903321 |
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Titolo |
Bernard Mandeville: A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (1730) / / edited by Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (IX, 238 p. 9 illus.) |
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Collana |
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International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, , 2215-0307 ; ; 223 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy - History |
Medicine - History |
Psychology |
Social sciences - History |
History of Philosophy |
History of Medicine |
History of Psychology |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Mandeville’s 1711 preface -- Chapter 2. Mandeville’s 1730 preface -- Chapter 3. First dialogue -- Chapter 4. Second dialogue -- Chapter 5. Third dialogue -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This work reflects on hypochondria as well as on the global functioning of the human mind and on the place of the patient/physician relationship in the wider organisation of society. First published in 1711, revised and enlarged in 1730, and now edited and published with a critical apparatus for the first time, this is a major work in the history of medical literature as well as a complex literary creation. Composed of three dialogues between a physician and two of his patients, Mandeville’s Treatise mirrors the digressive structure of a talking cure. Thanks to the soothing and enlightening effects of this casual conversation, the physician Mandeville demonstrates the healing power of words for a class of patients that he presents as men of |
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learning who need above all to be addressed in their own language. Mandeville’s aim was to delineate his own cure for hypochondria and hysteria, which consisted of a talking cure followed by diet and exercise, but also to discuss the practice of medicine in England and continental Europe at a time when physicians were beginning to lose ground to apothecaries. Opposing a purely theoretical approach to medicine, Mandeville takes up the principles presented by Francis Bacon, Thomas Sydenham, and Giorgio Baglivi, and advocates a medical practice based on experience and backed up by time-tested theories. |
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