{"product_id":"gout-the-dorian-o-haskard-9781800616486","title":"Gout, The: A Medical Microcosm in a Changing World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorian O. Haskard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1800616481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800616486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Dorian O. Haskard","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46906941407487,"sku":"9781800616486","price":84.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b41f328c-ae30-412a-9c44-e24a0ead481a.jpg?v=1748771837","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gout-the-dorian-o-haskard-9781800616486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}