Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History

Rob Boddice is Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences, Tampere University, Finland, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Canada. He is the author or editor of eleven books, most recently Humane Professions (2021), Emotion, Sense, Experience, with Mark Smith (2020), A History of Feelings (2019), and The History of Emotions (2018). Bettina Hitzer is Heisenberg Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the Technical University Dresden as well as Privatdozentin at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2014-2020, she was Leader of the Minerva Research Group “Emotions and Illness: Histories of an Intricate Relation” at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. She was awarded the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for her most recent book, Krebs fühlen (2020). She is the author or (co-)editor of nine books and four special issues including “History of Science and the Emotions” (Osiris, 2016).

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Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Emotion and Experience in the History of Medicine: Elaborating A Theory and Seeking A Method, Rob Boddice and Bettina Hitzer

Lived Epidemic
Commentary

1. Feeling the Dis-Ease of Ebola: An Invisible War, Emmanuel King Urey-Yarkpawolo
2. Ebola Wahala: Breaching Experiments in a Sierra Leonean Border Town, Luisa Enria and Angus Fayia Tengbeh
3. History before Corona: Memory, Experience, and Emotions, Bettina Hitzer

Datafication and Knowledge Production
Commentary

4. The Binary Logic of Emotion in the Sensorium of Virtual Health: The Case of Happify, Kirsten Ostherr
5. Third Person: Narrating Dis-Ease and Knowledge in Psychiatric Case Histories, Marietta Meier

Dis-ease Narratives: Making and Listening
Commentary

6. Feeling (and Falling) Ill: Finding a Language of Illness, Franziska Gygax
7. Beyond Symptomology: Listening to How Palestinians Conceive of their own Suffering and Well-being, Heidi Morrison

Expertise, Authority, Emotion
Commentary

8. Forensic Sense: Sexual Violence, Medical Professionals, and the Senses, Joanna Bourke
9. The Concept of Leidensdruck in West-German Criminal Therapy, 1960-85, Marcel Streng

Construction and Contingency of Experience
Commentary

10. The Efficacy of Arcadia: Constructing Emotions of Nature in the Pained Body through Landscape Imagery, c.1945-Present, Brenda Lynn Edgar
11. ‘Fashionable’ Diseases in Georgian Britain: Medical Theory, Cultural Meanings and Lived Experience, James Kennaway

Material, Objects, Feelings
Commentary

12. From a Patient’s Point of View: A Sensual-Perceptual Approach to Bed Treatment, Monika Ankele
13. Feeling Penfield, Annmarie Adams

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Index