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Roy Porter and G. S. Rousseau
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Gout has fascinated medical writers and cultural commentators from the time of ancient Greece. Historically seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius, and creativity, it has included among its sufferers Erasmus, the Medici, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, and Robert Browning. Gout has also been the subject of powerful medical folklore, viewed as a disease that protects its sufferers and assures long life. This dazzlingly insightful and readable book investigates the history of gout and through it offers a new perspective on medical and social history, sex, prejudice, and class, and explains why gout was gender specific.

Roy Porter was professor in the social history of medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. He was the author and editor of over one hundred books on the history of science, the history of medicine, social history and the Enlightenment. The Facts of Life was published by Yale in 1995.

G. S. Rousseau is an American cultural historian, and currently Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has been awarded several doctoral degrees honoris causa. His many previous books include Perilous Enlightenment, a biography of Youcenar and Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility.
ISBN: 9780300082746
Publication Date: March 11, 2000
408 pages, 6 x 9
34 b/w illus.
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