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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Contributors Introduction Framing the Frame: the Imagining and Framing of Disease in Cultural History G.S.Rousseau PART I: FRAMING AND IMAGINING DISEASE Within the Frame: Self-Starvation and the Making of Culture C.Albano Imagining Smallpox in the Long Eighteenth Century: Inscription and Interpretation D.E.Shuttleton This Pestilence Which Walketh in Darkness: New York City Reads the 1832 Cholera Epidemic J.Weiss Mapping Colonial Disease: Victorian Medical Cartography in British India P.K.Gilbert Framing the Mountain Malady: The Reception of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain in the Medical Community, 1924-2000 M.Herwig PART II: FRAMING AND IMAGINING MADNESS Little Bit Mad/Almost Mad/Not Quite Mad: Eccentricity and the Framing of Madness in Nineteenth-Century French Culture M.Gill Retrospective Medicine, Hypnosis, Hysteria and French Literature, 1875-1895 M.R.Finn Shifting Conceptions of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Therapies in Hungary, 1858-1908 E.Lafferton PART III: THE PATIENT'S NARRATIVES AND IMAGES Name Disease or Voice Sickness? The Patient's Contribution P.Rieder Framing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Gut: Genius, Digestion, Hypochondria G.S.Rousseau & D.B.Haycock PART IV: TOWARDS A POETICS AND METAPHORICS OF DISEASE Paradoxical Diseases in the Late Renaissance: The Cases of Syphilis and Plague A.Steczowicz Proved on the Pulses: Heart Disease in Victorian Culture K.Blair Tropenkoller: The Interdiscursive Poetics of a German Colonial Syndrome S.Besser Index
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