Marriage and Violence : The Early Modern Legacy /
Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what-or who-must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan contends, that its logical consequence is conflict.Dolan ranges over sixteenth- and seventeenth-cent...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2010]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION Benjamin Franklin's Enlightened Medicine
- PART I. THE COLONIST AND MEDICINE
- 1. Poor Richard's Medicine
- 2. In Praise of Exercise
- 3. The Smallpox Wars
- 4. The Citizen and the Hospital
- 5. Electricity and the Palsies
- 6. Electricity, Mental Disorders, and a Modest Proposal
- PART II. MEDICINE IN GREAT BRITAIN
- 7. Friends and Medical Connections
- 8. Scotland and the First American Medical School
- 9. Colds, the Weather, and the Invisible World
- 10. Fresh Air and Good Health
- 11. The Perils of Lead
- PART III. LE DOCTEUR IN FRANCE
- 12. French Medicine and Health Imperatives
- 13. The Folly of Mesmerism
- 14. From Music Therapy to the Music of Madness
- PART IV. OLD AGE, ILLNESSES, AND THE DOCTOR'S DEATH
- 15. Bifocals and the Aging Inventor
- 16. Skin and "Scurf "
- 17. The Gout as Your Friend?
- 18. A Debilitating Stone
- 19. The Limits of Medicine
- Epilogue: Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: One Flesh, Two Heads: Debating the Biblical Blueprint for Marriage in the Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Chapter Two: Battered Women, Petty Traitors, and the Legacy of Coverture
- Chapter Three: Fighting for the Breeches, Sharing the Rod: Spouses, Servants, and the Struggle for Equality
- Chapter Four: How a Maiden Keeps Her Head: Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, and the Perils of Marriage
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments