未婚少女の病：貧血と思春期の問題<br>The Disease of Virgins : Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty

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未婚少女の病：貧血と思春期の問題
The Disease of Virgins : Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 206 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780415226622
  • DDC分類 610.9

基本説明

Examines the origins and history of the disease, from its roots in the classical tradition to its extraordinary survival into the 1920s, despite changes in how the mechanisms of puberty and menstruation were understood, and enormous shifts in medical theories and technologies.

Full Description

From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls.

Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease through history,depsite enormous shifts in medical understanding and technonologies, and drawing parallels with the modern illness of anorexia.

Examining its roots in the classical tradition all the way through to its extraordinary survival into the 1920s, this study asks a number of questions about the nature of the disease itself and the relationship between illness, body images and what we should call'normal' behaviour.

This is a fascinating and clear account which will prove invaluable not just to students of classical studies, but will be of interest to medical professionals also.

Contents

Introduction, 1 The nature of green sickness, The humoral body, From green jaundice to green sickness, Green sickness and the disease of virgins, How green was green sickness? Green sickness and love sickness, 2 A new disease? The classical sources for the disease of virgins, Lange's letter, Hippocratic virginity, The transmission of On the disease of virgins, What is a virgin? Other possible Hippocratic sources, 'Some unknown monster': the challenge of 'new' diseases, 3 The menstruating virgin, The Galenic physiology of menstruation, Alternative theories of menstruation, Letting blood in the Hippocratic and Galenic bodies, 'Marriage is a sovereign cure', The problem of puberty, The philosophy of puberty, Town and country, 4 Dietary factors, Food and the growth of the body, Pica, Green sickness as a liver disorder, Constipation 5 'The laboratory came to the rescue': technology and chlorosis, The pulse, The stethoscope, Blood testing, Treatments, Shall we dance? Rest, Alternatives to orthodoxy, Women physicians and chlorosis, Conclusion