Helen King

The Disease of Virgins (eBook, PDF)

Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls.

Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease through history,depsite enormous shifts in medical understanding and technonologies, and drawing parallels with the modern illness of anorexia.

Examining its roots in the classical tradition all the way through to its extraordinary survival into the 1920s, this study asks a number of questions about the nature of the disease itself and the relationship between illness, body images and what we should call'normal' behaviour.

This is a fascinating and clear account which will prove invaluable not just to students of classical studies, but will be of interest to medical professionals also.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134589098
• Artikelnr.: 42977798

Autorenporträt

Helen King

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 The nature of green sickness
The humoral body
From green jaundice to green sickness
Green sickness and the disease of virgins
How green was green sickness? Green sickness and love sickness
2 A new disease? The classical sources for the disease of virgins
Lange's letter
Hippocratic virginity
The transmission of On the disease of virgins
What is a virgin? Other possible Hippocratic sources
'Some unknown monster': the challenge of 'new' diseases
3 The menstruating virgin
The Galenic physiology of menstruation
Alternative theories of menstruation
Letting blood in the Hippocratic and Galenic bodies
'Marriage is a sovereign cure'
The problem of puberty
The philosophy of puberty
Town and country
4 Dietary factors
Food and the growth of the body
Pica
Green sickness as a liver disorder
Constipation 5 'The laboratory came to the rescue': technology and chlorosis
The pulse
The stethoscope
Blood testing
Treatments
Shall we dance? Rest
Alternatives to orthodoxy
Women physicians and chlorosis
Conclusion