A History of Euphoria: The Perception and Misperception of Health and Well-Being

ISBN-13: 9780367137229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 260 str.

Christopher Milnes

Opis

This groundbreaking longue durée historical study explores some of the ways in which people in Western societies and cultures have experienced and made sense of health, well-being and euphoria: the "reality" and the sickly illusion.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part I: The Perception of Health  2. Frances Burney and the Loss and Restoration of Health  Part II: The Misperception of Health  3. Mistakes, Disappointments and Shattered Ideals  4. Gods, Goodness and Going Back: Meanings and Values of Health  5. Rarities of Misperception: Freedom from Doubt  6. The Experts: Guides to the Perception and Misperception of Health  Part III: The Misperceiving Other  7. Unreason: The Unhealthy Mind  8. Pleasure, Delirium and Hypochondria: When the "Mad" Misperceive Their Health  9. Fin de Siècle: Decadence, Degeneration and the Pleasures of Declining Health  10. Partial Insanity: Resemblances Between the "Mad" and the Sane  11. Addictive Medicine: Resemblances Between Oblivion and Restoration  Part IV: Euphoria  12. A History of Euphoria  13. Cocaine, Hypnotism and Joyful Death: Sigmund Freud in Euphorie  Part V: The Misperception of Well-Being  14. Fools and Monsters: A Sickness at Humanity’s Heart  15. Euphoria Obama: Cruel and Unusual Euphoria  16. Conclusion

O autorze

Christopher Milnes is an early career scholar and History tutor based in London.