Author: Lady Darcy MaxwellPublisher:
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Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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The Life of Darcy, Lady Maxwell, of Pollock, Late of Edinburgh
Author: Lady Darcy MaxwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Life of Darcy, Lady Maxwell, of Pollock; Late of Edinburgh: Compiled from Her Voluminous Diary and Correspondence, and from Other Authentic Documents
Author: Lady Darcy MaxwellPublisher:
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Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The life of Darcy, lady Maxwell of pollock, late of Edinburgh by the Rev. ---, with an abridgment of the extracts from her diary and selections from her correspondence by J.Gilchrist Wilson
Author: William ATHERTONThe Life of Darcy, Lady Maxwell, of Pollock
Author: Lady Darcy MaxwellPublisher:
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Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Story of Pain
Author: Joanna BourkePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191003549
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, people believed that pain served a specific (and positive) function - it was a message from God or Nature; it would perfect the spirit. 'Suffer in this life and you wouldn't suffer in the next one'. Submission to pain was required. Nothing could be more removed from twentieth and twenty-first century understandings, where pain is regarded as an unremitting evil to be 'fought'. Focusing on the English-speaking world, this book tells the story of pain since the eighteenth century, addressing fundamental questions about the experience and nature of suffering over the last three centuries. How have those in pain interpreted their suffering - and how have these interpretations changed over time? How have people learnt to conduct themselves when suffering? How do friends and family react? And what about medical professionals: should they immerse themselves in the suffering person or is the best response a kind of professional detachment? As Joanna Bourke shows in this fascinating investigation, people have come up with many different answers to these questions over time. And a history of pain can tell us a great deal about how we might respond to our own suffering in the present - and, just as importantly, to the suffering of those around us.
Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Heather R BeattyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317321103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease – a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that ‘nervousness’ was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.
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