Matters of the heart : history, medicine, and emotion /

Matters of the heart : history, medicine, and emotion /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Alberti, Fay Bound, 1971-
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Description:	viii, 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Heart -- Diseases -- Social aspects -- History. Heart -- Anatomy. Heart -- Symbolic aspects. Emotions. Mind and body. Emotions. Heart -- Anatomy. Heart -- Diseases -- Social aspects. Heart -- Symbolic aspects. Mind and body. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7980640

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ISBN:	9780199540976 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0199540977 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Heart of the Matter: Emotion, Modernity and the Self
1. Humours to Hormones: Emotion and the Heart in History
2. Hunter's Heart: Pathological Anatomy and the Science of Disease
3. From Morbid Anatomy to New Technologies: Constructing the Heart of Disease
4. Angina Pectoris and the Arnold Family
5. 'Heart Latham' and Nineteenth-Century Medical Practice.
6. The Heart of Harriet Martineau: Symptoms, Subjectivity and Self-Fashioning
7. Emotions and the Brain: Rethinking the Mind/Body Relationship
Conclusion: The Matter of the Heart.