Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History

Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Emotion and Experience in the History of Medicine: Elaborating A Theory and Seeking A Method, Rob Boddice and Bettina Hitzer

Lived Epidemic
Commentary

1. Feeling the Dis-Ease of Ebola: An Invisible War, Emmanuel King Urey-Yarkpawolo
2. Ebola Wahala: Breaching Experiments in a Sierra Leonean Border Town, Luisa Enria and Angus Fayia Tengbeh
3. History before Corona: Memory, Experience, and Emotions, Bettina Hitzer

Datafication and Knowledge Production
Commentary

4. The Binary Logic of Emotion in the Sensorium of Virtual Health: The Case of Happify, Kirsten Ostherr
5. Third Person: Narrating Dis-Ease and Knowledge in Psychiatric Case Histories, Marietta Meier

Dis-ease Narratives: Making and Listening
Commentary

6. Feeling (and Falling) Ill: Finding a Language of Illness, Franziska Gygax
7. Beyond Symptomology: Listening to How Palestinians Conceive of their own Suffering and Well-being, Heidi Morrison

Expertise, Authority, Emotion
Commentary

8. Forensic Sense: Sexual Violence, Medical Professionals, and the Senses, Joanna Bourke
9. The Concept of Leidensdruck in West-German Criminal Therapy, 1960-85, Marcel Streng

Construction and Contingency of Experience
Commentary

10. The Efficacy of Arcadia: Constructing Emotions of Nature in the Pained Body through Landscape Imagery, c.1945-Present, Brenda Lynn Edgar
11. 'Fashionable' Diseases in Georgian Britain: Medical Theory, Cultural Meanings and Lived Experience, James Kennaway

Material, Objects, Feelings
Commentary

12. From a Patient's Point of View: A Sensual-Perceptual Approach to Bed Treatment, Monika Ankele
13. Feeling Penfield, Annmarie Adams

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Index