{"product_id":"strange-cases-jason-tougaw-9780415977166","title":"Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrange Cases\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of the mutual influence of the case history \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFictions from Defoe's \u003cem\u003eRoxana\u003c\/em\u003e to James's \u003cem\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecase histories from George Cheyne's to Sigmund Freud's have found \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enarrative impetus in pathology. The writer of a case history faces a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erhetorical bind unique to the human sciences: the need to display the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eacumen of a scientist and the sympathy warranted to the suffering \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epatient. Repeatedly, case historians justify their publicizing of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eextreme, often morbid or perverse, states of mind and body by \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eappealing to readers to take pity on patients and to recognize the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enarrative as a vital social document. Diagnosis and sympathy, explicit \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erhetorical modes in case histories, operate implicitly in novels, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshaping reader-identification. While these two narrative forms set out \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto fulfill an Enlightenment drive to classify and explain, they also \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eraise social and epistemological questions that challenge some of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnlightenment's most cherished ideals, including faith in reason, the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eperfectibility of humankind, and the stability of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Tougaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415977169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415977166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.36w x 0.75d","brand":"Jason Tougaw","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064979730687,"sku":"9780415977166","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_737a36f9-045e-412b-98b5-19244b5a50fd.jpg?v=1768672329","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strange-cases-jason-tougaw-9780415977166","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}