Bernard Mandeville : a treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick diseases (1730) / Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, editor.
| Other author/creator | Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie, editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017] |
| Description | ix, 238 pages ; 25 cm. |
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| Series | International archives of the history of ideas ; 223 Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 223. ^A494673 |
| Contents | Note on the Text -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Fragmentary Biography -- Form and Contents of the Treatise -- Treatise and The Fable of the Bees -- Select Bibliography -- Preface to the First Edition (1711) -- Preface to the Second -- Enlarged Edition (1730) -- Contents -- First Dialogue Between Philopirio a Physician, and Misomedon His Patient -- Second Dialogue Between Philopirio a Physician, and Misomedon His Patient -- Third Dialogue Between Philopirio a Physician, Misomedon and Polytheca His Patients -- Notes -- Notes to the Note on the Text and Introduction -- Note to the Title Page of the 1730 Edition -- Notes to Mandeville's Prefaces -- Notes to the First Dialogue -- Notes to the Second Dialogue -- Notes to the Third Dialogue -- Short Biographies of Authors or Scientists Cited in the Treatise -- Index. |
| Abstract | This work reflects on hypochondria as well as on the global functioning of the human mind and on the place of the patient/physician relationship in the wider organisation of society. First published in 1711, revised and enlarged in 1730, and now edited and published with a critical apparatus for the first time, this is a major work in the history of medical literature as well as a complex literary creation. Composed of three dialogues between a physician and two of his patients, Mandeville's Treatise mirrors the digressive structure of a talking cure. Thanks to the soothing and enlightening effects of this casual conversation, the physician Mandeville demonstrates the healing power of words for a class of patients that he presents as men of learning who need above all to be addressed in their own language. Mandeville's aim was to delineate his own cure for hypochondria and hysteria, which consisted of a talking cure followed by diet and exercise, but also to discuss the practice of medicine in England and continental Europe at a time when physicians were beginning to lose ground to apothecaries. Opposing a purely theoretical approach to medicine, Mandeville takes up the principles presented by Francis Bacon, Thomas Sydenham, and Giorgio Baglivi, and advocates a medical practice based on experience and backed up by time-tested theories. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2017943341 |
| ISBN | 3319577794 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9783319577791 (hardback) |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | RC552.H8 B47 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |