From lesion to metaphor : : chronic pain in British, French and German medical writings, 1800-1914 / / Andrew Hodgkiss.

• Superior document: Clio Medica ; 58
• VerfasserIn: Hodgkiss, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 58.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (iii, 218 pages)

Most non-malignant chronic pain is medically unexplained. But that has not stopped doctors from trying. These improvisations at the limit of medical knowledge offer a way into the history of neurosis. Lesionless pain was a paradigmatic problem of clinical method after 1800. It was central to the eme...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Secondary Literature Review and Methodological Remarks.
• The Birth of a Problem
• A Local Irritation: Pain Without Lesion in the writings of French and British Physicians and Surgeons: 1820 – 1840
• Gemeingefühl: German Romanticism, Cenesthesis and Subjective Pain: 1794–1846
• Reflexion and Depression: Pain Without Lesion in mid-century German and British ‘Neurological’ and ‘Psychiatric’ Writings: 1840–55
• Functional Nervous Disorders in French and British Medical Texts: 1859–1871
• Functional Nervous Disorders in French and British Medical Writings: 1866–1886
• Psychalgia and Conversion: Pain Without Lesion in late nineteenth-century Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Writings: 1872–1895
• Pain as Psychopathology in early twentieth-century French and German Psychiatric Writings: 1900–1914
• Conclusions
• Bibliography.