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Cargando... From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era (1992)por Edward Shorter
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A history of psychosomatic illness. I wish I had written it; it is exactly my conception of appropriate medical history. His thesis is that patients learn what symptoms are acceptable from their doctors, and from the culture. I think this insight has strongly influenced my understanding of many of my neurology cases. He is a bit too disparaging of doctors in the past though; he is taking aim armed with modern knowledge, and seems to neglect the possibility that these physicians were doing their best with the information available at the time. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In the 19th century, when gender roles were more confining, the dominant forms of psychosomatic illness were paralysis and hysteria. Today, when people experience confusion about the abundant possibilities available to them, when all is permitted, the dominant complaint is fatigue. Edward Shorter's history shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of larger society. He argues that newly popularized diseases such as chronic fatigue syndrome are only the most recent examples of patients' ailments that express the deepest truths about the culture in which we live. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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