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Gout: The Patrician Malady
by Dr Roy Porter ; G S Rousseau
Binding: Hardcover, 1 edition, 408 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press
List Price: USD $55.00
Weight: 199
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 9.51 x W: 0.51 inches
ISBN 10: 0300073860
ISBN 13: 9780300073867
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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.

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