Rob Boddice, Bettina Hitzer (Editors)
Bloomsbury
02 Jun 2022 4
This book explores experiences of illness, broadly construed. It
encompasses the emotional and sensory disruptions that attend disease,
injury, mental illness or trauma, and gives an account of how medical
practitioners, experts, lay authorities and the public have felt about
such disruptions.
Considering all sides of the medical
encounter and highlighting the intersection of intellectual history and
medical knowledge, of institutional atmospheres, built environments and
technological practicalities, and of emotional and sensory experience, Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History
presents a wide-ranging affective account of feeling well and of
feeling ill. Especially occupied with the ways in which dynamics of
power and authority have either validated or discounted dis-eased
feelings, the book's contributors probe at the intersectional politics
of medical expertise and patient experience to better understand
situated expressions of illness, their reception, and their social,
cultural and moral valuation. Drawing on methodologies from the
histories of emotions, senses, science and the medical humanities, this
book gives an account of the complexity of undergoing illness: of
feeling dis-ease.
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