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Title: GOUT
THE PATRICIAN MALADY
By: Roy Porter, Professor George S. Rousseau, G. Rousseau
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0300082746
ISBN 13: 9780300082746
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Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 February, 2000
Pages: 408
Description: Gout has been seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius and creativity. It is also believed to protect its sufferers and assure long life. This study investigates the history of gout and offers a perspective on medical and social history, sex, prejudice and class.
Synopsis: Gout has fascinated medical writers and cultural commentators from the time of ancient Greece. Historically seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius, and creativity, it has included among its sufferers Erasmus, the Medici, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, and Robert Browning. Gout has also been the subject of powerful medical folklore, viewed as a disease that protects its sufferers and assures long life. This dazzlingly insightful and readable book investigates the history of gout and through it offers a new perspective on medical and social history, sex, prejudice, and class, and explains why gout was gender specific.
Illustrations: 34 b-w illus.
Publication: US
Imprint: Yale University Press
Returns: Returnable
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