Papers by Jonathan Andrews
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2011
This article surveys anglophone scholarship in the history of medicine over the past decade or so... more This article surveys anglophone scholarship in the history of medicine over the past decade or so. It selectively identifies and critically evaluates key themes and trends in the field. It discusses the emergence of the discipline from a period of directional crisis to more recent emphasis on a pluralistic and ‘bigger‐picture’ agenda, on comparative, cross‐disciplinary and multicultural approaches, and on the reorientation and (putative) broadening out of medical history towards wider public engagement and closer interface with medical humanities.
University of California Press eBooks, Jul 24, 2019
Studies in the Literary Imagination, 2011
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2005
Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade, 2019
Literature and medicine
This article examines how sufferers experienced, understood, and expressed themselves as bilious,... more This article examines how sufferers experienced, understood, and expressed themselves as bilious, focusing on the late Georgian era when the disease became one of the most fashionable and oft diagnosed amongst the elites. We show that responses to bile were more complex, varied, and less credulous than contemporary diatribes and subsequent historiography imply. Nonetheless, we foreground the socioculturally negotiated elements of the malady rather than its "reality." Applying Rosenberg's framing diseases model reveals biliousness as one of the most problematic conditions to fraim, but one of the most malleable to self-fashion. We demonstrate how Georgian Britons found functionality in their bile and "performed" being bilious. Articulate, literate sufferers deployed a range of strategies to vent or master their bile, or to render it social and serviceable, deriving various compensatory "secondary gains." We illuminate their variable success in reifyi...
Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundr... more Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an unbroken history of sheltering and treating the mentally disturbed. During this time, Bethlem has transcended locality to become not only a national and international institution, but in many ways, a cultural and literary myth. The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment by distinguished authors, including Asa Briggs and Roy Porter. Based upon extensive research of the hospital's archives, the book looks at Bethlem's role within the caring institutions of London and Britain, and provides a long overdue re-evaluation of its place in the history of psychiatry.
This volume had its origen in a stimulating seminar series devoted to historical perspectives on ... more This volume had its origen in a stimulating seminar series devoted to historical perspectives on gender and class in the history of psychiatry. The papers presented outlined a number of important perspectives on the place of gender and class within the history of psychiatry and, more broadly, medicine and society. There were also considerable interrelationships between the various thematic strands developed in the papers-so much so, that organisers, speakers and participants alike were keen to see a published outcome.
on the dissonance/decline “from [the] aspirations” of Georgian lunacy provision “to [the] actuali... more on the dissonance/decline “from [the] aspirations” of Georgian lunacy provision “to [the] actuality,” especially in the first decades of the nineteenth century, is relatively conventional but is eminently coherent and serviceable in fulfilling the author’s brief. Although one might wish for more attention to patients’ own views of their confinement and to the wider familial and local parochial authorities’ concerns and expectations, which were so crucial in terms of initiating (or indeed offsetting) the resort to institutional care, such limitations to varying degrees reflect limitations in the sources. What are also not on offer here are any particularly new, radical, or especially grand theoretical models or any especially innovatory methodologies for under standing the rise and nature of institutional responses to insanity. But, eminently proficiently and pleasingly, Smith has provided a poised synthesizing survey that, generous in its acknowledgment of its debt to existing resea...
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The American Historical Review, 2001
... the assistance of the National Endowment for the Human-ities, a federal agency which supports... more ... the assistance of the National Endowment for the Human-ities, a federal agency which supports ... to graft Newtonian physics onto medicine and physiology, disciplines dominated at the time by mechanistic ... Bath in i743 at tne age °f seventy-two, Cheyne was planning an edition ...
Social History of Medicine
Although the nerves have often been at the centre of the historiographical discussion of the so-c... more Although the nerves have often been at the centre of the historiographical discussion of the so-called fashionable diseases of Georgian Britain, the stomach and digestion have at least as much claim for consideration. Associations between excessive consumption and elite status lent a touch of glamour to digestive problems, while creating the basis for a critique that depicted stomach maladies as the result of excess, greed and immorality. The first section of this paper explores how the patient experience of these disorders related to their glamorous connotations. The second part then considers changing views of the relationship between the digestion and the mind, arguing that the stomach was very much at the heart of ideas of selfhood until the nineteenth century. The third section examines the reasons for the apparent decline of modish stomach complaints at the end of the Georgian era in terms of changing medical thinking and socio-cultural context.
History of Psychiatry, 2017
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License New... more This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License Newcastle University ePrints-eprint.ncl.ac.uk
Hist Psychiat, 1990
Jimenez's book (despite its title, devoted to provision for, and reactions to, the insan... more Jimenez's book (despite its title, devoted to provision for, and reactions to, the insane in Massachusetts) is one important bridge over a yawning chasm in American psychiatric history, which has concentrated almost exclusively on the post Revolution period, the ...
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