Matters of the heart : history, medicine, and emotion /
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Author / Creator: | Alberti, Fay Bound, 1971- |
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
Description: | viii, 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7980640 |
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.