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.
| ISBN: | 9780300082746 |
| Publication date: | 23rd April 2024 |
| Author: | Roy Porter, G S Rousseau |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 408 pages |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Diseases and disorders History of medicine |