GOUT, THE: A MEDICAL MICROCOSM IN A CHANGING WORLD (eBook)

A Medical Microcosm in a Changing World

Dorian Haskard (Autor)

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2025
396 Seiten
World Scientific Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-80061-650-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The Gout has always been a complex metaphor, positively conjuring up success and wealth but negatively implying overindulgence and waste. Regardless of its slant, the metaphor always comes first; the condition plays second fiddle. Scientific advancements over some three hundred and fifty years have eventually condensed the broad concept of 'the Gout' into a well-understood disease. The book traces how this process enabled an eventual transition from ineffective to effective therapies, addresses the age-old nature versus nurture conundrum of susceptibility, and considers how ordinary people would have been (mis)informed by doctors, scientists, newspapers, and advertisements.

With our modern understanding and solutions, gout should be uncommon today; paradoxically, it is enjoying a renaissance. Now, it is the outcome of poor as well as rich living due to the ill health created by the corporate global economy – a close cousin of obesity, type II diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease. Investigating 'the Gout' provides a microcosm not only of our social and medical history, but of our present and rapidly changing world.

Contents:

• About the Author
• Preface
• Introduction
• Thomas Sydenham and His Associates
• Some Gout Physicians of the Eighteenth Century
• Pills, Powders and Other Potions
• The French Remedy
• The Discovery of Uric Acid
• More Pills and Potions
• Controlling Uric Acid
• Crystallising Inflammation
• From Colchicum to Colchicine
• In the Family
• Triggers and Protectors
• The Humanness of Gout
• Food, Gout and Global Health
• Glossary
• Endnotes
• Index

Readership: This book is intended for a broad audience for pleasure and education, and does not require specialist knowledge. It will be of particular interest to doctors and scientists interested in medical and scientific history and, conversely, to historians interested in science and medicine.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2025
• Verlagsort: Singapore
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Schlagworte: Agricultural Industry • Arthritis • Colchicine • crystals • Drug Advertising • Drug Contamination • drug development • Ecology • Evolution • food industry • Genetic Modification • Gout • Guano • Heart disease • hester stanhope • history of medicine • Hypertension • inflammation • James Gillray • Joseph Banks • lifestyle • Metabolic Syndrome • nitrogen • Obesity • Penicillin • queen anne • stroke • Thomas Sydenham • Treatment • Uric acid
• ISBN-10: 1-80061-650-3 / 1800616503
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80061-650-9 / 9781800616509