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Can I read Gout : the Patrician Malady on EtoBox?
Gout : the Patrician Malady by Dr. Roy Porter, G. S. Rousseau is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Gout : the Patrician Malady about?
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.
Who reads Gout : the Patrician Malady?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dr. Roy Porter, G. S. Rousseau
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300073867
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, History, Nursing
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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