Michael Stannard

Galdós and Medicine

1. Auflage. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,5 cm / 15,0 cm / 1,4 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 250 Seiten
EAN 9783034318259
Veröffentlicht März 2015
Verlag/Hersteller Peter Lang
€ 71,90 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) is revered as Spain's greatest nineteenth-century author. Writing in the realist tradition of Dickens, Zola and Balzac, he described life in Madrid with unequalled fidelity. In addition, he was unique among novelists of his time in his knowledge of medicine, revealed in his depictions of mental and physical disease. While critical analyses of his novels abound, this book is the first detailed study of the medicine that appears in his novels and newspaper articles. Galdós acquired his medical knowledge at a time of great changes: anaesthesia and antisepsis were developed, and the germs responsible for many human diseases identified. French medicine was especially influential, though increasing international exchange resulted in new ideas also being adopted from England, Germany and Italy. The author of this study analyses Galdós's network of medical contacts, together with some of the sources available to them. Subjects such as epidemic disease, madness and children's diseases are examined and the light they throw upon the medicine of the time is discussed. The concluding chapter of the book assesses the significance of Galdós's depictions of disease and of doctors.

Portrait

Michael W. Stannard is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Exeter. He studied medicine at the Royal London Hospital, graduating in 1966, and then pursued a distinguished medical career that culminated in his appointment as Associate Professor of Pediatric Radiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He was awarded his PhD in Spanish literature from the University of Minnesota in 2011.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Doctors and Medicine in Galdós-s Madrid - Epidemics: Cholera, Influenza and Smallpox - Endemic Diseases: Tuberculosis, Syphilis and Angina - Alcoholism - Madness - Eye Disease and Blindness - Childhood Diseases.

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