Gout : the patrician malady / Roy Porter and G.S. Rousseau.
Pubblicazione:
New Haven : Yale university press, c1998.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 393 p. : ill., ritr. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. Pt. 1. Histories: 2. The classical inheritance 3. Prometheus's vulture: the renaissance fashioning of gout 4. Science and Sydenham 5. The eighteenth-century medical debates. Pt. 2. Cultures: 6. Gout and the Georgian gentleman 7. Smollet, Cadogan and controversy 8. Change and continuity, 1790-1850 9. Indian summer: romantic and Victorian gout 10. Gout and glory: Garrod and after. Pt. 3. Goutometries: 11. Podagra ludens: disease and discourse 12. Gout: the visual heritage. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index
