Marriage and Violence : : The Early Modern Legacy /

Marriage and Violence : : The Early Modern Legacy / / Frances E. Dolan.

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Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what-or who-must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan contends, that its logical consequence is conflict.Dolan ranges over sixteenth- and seventeenth-cent...

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Dolan, Frances E.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©2008
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 1 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION Benjamin Franklin's Enlightened Medicine
  • PART I. THE COLONIST AND MEDICINE
  • 1. Poor Richard's Medicine
  • 2. In Praise of Exercise
  • 3. The Smallpox Wars
  • 4. The Citizen and the Hospital
  • 5. Electricity and the Palsies
  • 6. Electricity, Mental Disorders, and a Modest Proposal
  • PART II. MEDICINE IN GREAT BRITAIN
  • 7. Friends and Medical Connections
  • 8. Scotland and the First American Medical School
  • 9. Colds, the Weather, and the Invisible World
  • 10. Fresh Air and Good Health
  • 11. The Perils of Lead
  • PART III. LE DOCTEUR IN FRANCE
  • 12. French Medicine and Health Imperatives
  • 13. The Folly of Mesmerism
  • 14. From Music Therapy to the Music of Madness
  • PART IV. OLD AGE, ILLNESSES, AND THE DOCTOR'S DEATH
  • 15. Bifocals and the Aging Inventor
  • 16. Skin and "Scurf "
  • 17. The Gout as Your Friend?
  • 18. A Debilitating Stone
  • 19. The Limits of Medicine
  • Epilogue: Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: One Flesh, Two Heads: Debating the Biblical Blueprint for Marriage in the Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • Chapter Two: Battered Women, Petty Traitors, and the Legacy of Coverture
  • Chapter Three: Fighting for the Breeches, Sharing the Rod: Spouses, Servants, and the Struggle for Equality
  • Chapter Four: How a Maiden Keeps Her Head: Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, and the Perils of Marriage
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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