The Man Who Crucified Himself: Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Author:   Maria Boehmer
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   97
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9789004353596


Pages:   306
Publication Date:   08 November 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Maria Boehmer
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   97
Weight:   0.631kg
ISBN:  

9789004353596


ISBN 10:   9004353593
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   08 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Man Who Crucified Himself 2 The Storia della crocifissione as an Epistemic Genre 3 Making the Case Travel. Translation, Media, Reading 4 Professional Readings: Religion 5 Professional Readings: Madness 6 Professional Readings: Suicide 7 Popular Readings: Moral Education and Literary Entertainment Epilogue Bibliography

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Overall, Boehmer's study contributes broadly to scholarship on epistemic genres and specifically to our understanding of the role of case histories in the history of psychiatry. Alexandra Bamji (University of Leeds), Bull. Hist. Med., 2020, Vol. 94 (3), 527-528 pp. Maria Boehmer's The Man Who Crucified Himself is an important contribution to many convergent fields: the history of medicine, and especially surgery; nineteenth century Italian history; the history of medical communication; and, last but not least, the history of one crucial textual genre in medicine, the case, as defined by Gianna Pomata for the early modern period. [...] The book is an exciting reading for specialists, but it can also be fruitfully used in the classroom, to illustrate the multiple layers and diverse adventures and uses of medical narratives in the long nineteenth century. Maria Conforti (History of Medicine and Bioethics, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy), Journal of the History of Medicine, Vol. 75 (3), 2020, 346-347 pp.


Maria Boehmer's The Man Who Crucified Himself is an important contribution to many convergent fields: the history of medicine, and especially surgery; nineteenthcentury Italian history; the history of medical communication; and, last but not least, the history of one crucial textual genre in medicine [...] The book is an exciting reading for specialists, but it can also be fruitfully used in the classroom, to illustrate the multiple layers and diverse adventures and uses of medical narratives in the long nineteenth century. - Maria Conforti (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy), Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 75, Issue 3, July 2020, Pages 346-347


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Maria Boehmer, Ph.D. (2013), European University Institute Florence, Italy, is postdoctoral research fellow in the history of medicine at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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