Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Within the Frame: Self-Starvation and the Making of Culture

Chapter 3 A Culture of Disfigurement: Imagining Smallpox in the Long Eighteenth Century

Chapter 4 ‘This Pestilence Which Walketh in Darkness’: Reconceptualizing the 1832 New York Cholera Epidemic

Chapter 5 Mapping Colonial Disease: Victorian Medical Cartography in British India

Chapter 6 Framing the ‘Magic Mountain Malady’: the Reception of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain in the Medical Community, 1924–2000

Chapter 7 A Little Bit Mad/Almost Mad/Not Quite Mad? Eccentricity and the Framing of Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century French Culture

Chapter 8 Retrospective Medicine, Hypnosis, Hysteria and French Literature, 1875–1895

Chapter 9 From Private Asylum to University Clinic: Hungarian Psychiatry, 1850–1908

Chapter 10 Patients and Words: a Lay Medical Culture?

Chapter 11 Framing Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Gut: Genius, Digestion, Hypochondria

Chapter 12 Paradoxical Diseases in the Late Renaissance: the Cases of Syphilis and Plague

Chapter 13 ‘Proved on the Pulses’: Heart Disease in Victorian Culture, 1830–1860