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Darrera modificació: 2014-04-22
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McCleery, Iona, "Both «illness and temptation of the Enemy»: melancholy, the medieval patient and the writings of King Duarte of Portugal (r. 1433-38)", Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 1/2 (2009), 163-178.
- Resum
- Recent historians have rehabilitated King Duarte of Portugal, previously maligned and neglected, as an astute ruler and philosopher. There is still a tendency, however, to view Duarte as a depressive or a hypochondriac, due to his own description of his melancholy in his advice book, the Loyal Counselor. This paper reassesses Duarte's writings, drawing on key approaches in the history of medicine, such as narrative medicine and the history of the patient. It is important to take Duarte's views on his condition seriously, placing them in the medical and theological contexts of his time and avoiding modern retrospective diagnosis. Duarte's writings can be used to explore the impact of plague, doubt and death on the life of a well-educated and conscientious late-medieval ruler. His writings also include regimen, ideas about diet and medication for his stomach (the same pills he took for his melancholy). Judging by the recipes he collected he was concerned about diarrhoea-like symptoms.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Biografia
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Medicina - Psicologia i psiquiatria
- URL
- http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a9 ...
http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/PMC/PMC3158133
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