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Fevered Lives
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Author : Katherine Ott
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1996
Fevered Lives written by Katherine Ott and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Medical categories.
Consider two polar images of the same medical condition: the pale and fragile Camille ensconced on a chaise in a Victorian parlor, daintily coughing a small spot of blood onto her white lace pillow, and a wretched poor man in a Bowery flophouse spreading a dread and deadly infection. Now Katherine Ott chronicles how in one century a romantic, ambiguous affliction of the spirit was transformed into a disease that threatened public health and civic order. She persuasively argues that there was no constant identity to the disease over time, no "core" tuberculosis. What we understand today as pulmonary tuberculosis would have been largely unintelligible to a physician or patient in the late nineteenth century. Although medically the two terms described the same disease of the lungs, Ott shows that "tuberculosis" and "consumption" were diagnosed, defined, and treated distinctively by both lay and professional health workers. Ott traces the shift from the pre-industrial world of 1870, in which consumption was conceived of primarily as a middle-class malaise that conferred virtue, heightened spirituality, and gentility on the sufferer, to the post-industrial world of today, in which tuberculosis is viewed as a microscopic enemy, fought on an urban battleground and attacking primarily the outcast poor and AIDS patients. Ott's focus is the changing definition of the disease in different historical eras and environments. She explores its external trappings, from the symptoms doctors chose to notice (whether a pale complexion or a tubercle in a dish) to the significance of the economic and social circumstances of the patient. Emphasizing the material culture of disease--medical supplies, advertisements for faraway rest cures, outdoor sick porches, and invalid hammocks--Ott provides insight into people's understanding of illness and how to combat it. Fevered Lives underscores the shifting meanings of consumption/tuberculosis in an extraordinarily readable cultural history.
These Fevered Days Ten Pivotal Moments In The Making Of Emily Dickinson
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Author : Martha Ackmann
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2020-02-25
These Fevered Days Ten Pivotal Moments In The Making Of Emily Dickinson written by Martha Ackmann and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, this engaging, insightful portrayal of Emily Dickinson sheds new light on one of American literature’s most enigmatic figures. On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, “All things are ready” and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely “at home” (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson’s interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinson’s life through ten decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet. Ackmann follows Dickinson through her religious crisis while a student at Mount Holyoke, which prefigured her lifelong ambivalence toward organized religion and her deep, private spirituality. We see the poet through her exhilarating frenzy of composition, through which we come to understand her fiercely self-critical eye and her relationship with sister-in-law and first reader, Susan Dickinson. Contrary to her reputation as a recluse, Dickinson makes the startling decision to ask a famous editor for advice, writes anguished letters to an unidentified “Master,” and keeps up a lifelong friendship with writer Helen Hunt Jackson. At the peak of her literary productivity, she is seized with despair in confronting possible blindness. Utilizing thousands of archival letters and poems as well as never-before-seen photos, These Fevered Days constructs a remarkable map of Emily Dickinson’s inner life. Together, these ten days provide new insights into her wildly original poetry and render an “enjoyable and absorbing” (Scott Bradfield, Washington Post) portrait of American literature’s most enigmatic figure.
Living For Pleasure
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Author : Emily A. Austin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-11
Living For Pleasure written by Emily A. Austin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11 with categories.
If we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it? Pleasure feels amazing! Anxiety, however, does not. The Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus rolled these two strikingly intuitive claims into a simple formula for happiness and well-being--pursue pleasure without causing yourself anxiety. But wait, is that even possible? Can humans achieve lasting pleasure without suffering anxiety about failure and loss? Epicurus thinks we can, at least once we learn to pursue pleasure thoughtfully. In Living for Pleasure, philosopher Emily Austin offers a lively, jargon-free tour of Epicurean strategies for diminishing anxiety, achieving satisfaction, and relishing joys. Epicurean science was famously far ahead of its time, and Austin shows that so was its ethics and psychology. Epicureanism can help us make and keep good friends, prepare for suffering, combat imposter syndrome, build trust, recognize personal limitations, value truth, cultivate healthy attitudes towards money and success, manage political anxiety, develop gratitude, savor food, and face death. Readers will walk away knowing more about an important school of philosophy, but moreover understanding how to get what they want in life--happiness--without the anxiety of striving for it.
Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood
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Author : Aspasia Stephanou
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-07-17
Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood written by Aspasia Stephanou and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture.
Infectious Fear
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Author : Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-04-30
Infectious Fear written by Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-30 with Medical categories.
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines how individuals and institutions--black and white, public and private--responded to the challenges of tuberculosis in a segregated society. Reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted "racial hygiene" and sought to control TB through Jim Crow quarantines, Roberts explains. African Americans, in turn, protested the segregated, overcrowded housing that was the true root of the tuberculosis problem. Moderate white and black political leadership reconfigured definitions of health and citizenship, extending some rights while constraining others. Meanwhile, those who suffered with the disease--as its victims or as family and neighbors--made the daily adjustments required by the devastating effects of the "white plague." Exploring the politics of race, reform, and public health, Infectious Fear uses the tuberculosis crisis to illuminate the limits of racialized medicine and the roots of modern health disparities. Ultimately, it reveals a disturbing picture of the United States' health history while offering a vision of a more democratic future.
Sir Jasper Carew His Life And Experiences
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Author : Charles James Lever
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
Sir Jasper Carew His Life And Experiences written by Charles James Lever and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with categories.
Sir Jasper Carew His Life And Experiences
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Author : Charles Lever
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2007-09-01
Sir Jasper Carew His Life And Experiences written by Charles Lever and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Charles James Lever (1806-1872) was an Irish novelist of English descent. This volume contains "Sir Jasper Carew, His Life and Experiences." Illustrations by E. Van Muyden.
Novels Sir Jasper Carew His Life And Experiences
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Author : Charles Lever
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Novels Sir Jasper Carew His Life And Experiences written by Charles Lever and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.
The Spirit Of The Christian Life Sermons
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Author : Stopford Augustus Brooke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
The Spirit Of The Christian Life Sermons written by Stopford Augustus Brooke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Christian life categories.
The Novels Of Charles Lever Sir Jasper Carew His Life And Experiences Illus By E Van Muyden
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Author : Charles Lever
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
The Novels Of Charles Lever Sir Jasper Carew His Life And Experiences Illus By E Van Muyden written by Charles Lever and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.