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A History of Multiple Sclerosis (Hardcover)
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A History of Multiple Sclerosis (Hardcover)
Series: Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History
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While we now recognize that MS is a common neurological disease, as
late as the early twentieth century it was considered a relatively
rare condition in Europe and the United States. It was only in the
late 1860s that MS came to be generally recognized as a distinct
disease apart from other paraplegic maladies. One of the important
historical questions about MS is whether it was a new disease of
the nineteenth century or one that had simply gone unrecognized for
a long time. Answering this question is complicated by the
different frames or ways physicians understood and explained
disease in previous centuries. The way we now conceive, categorize,
and explain disease is a relatively recent formulation in the long
view of medical history. This work aims to answer some of the
fundamental questions of the history of MS. How and why did MS
emerge when and where it did, first in a book of pathological
anatomy in early nineteenth-century France, then as a distinct
disease category in France by 1868? How and why did the perception
of MS as a rare disease in the early twentieth century change so
that by the middle of that century it was considered a common
affliction of the nervous system? How did local conditions shape
research on MS? Why did MS emerge as a popular crusade and research
priority, rather suddenly, in the late 1940s and early 1950s? How
has the experience of people with MS changed from the nineteenth to
the twentieth centuries? Since there was no consensus about the
merits of any treatment until very recently, how does one explain
the sometimes aggressive treatment of disease from the late
nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century? This book focuses
in part on howsociocultural factors allowed MS to emerge into
medical awareness and later popular consciousness and how the
different scientific and sociocultural frames of disease affected
the experience of people with MS. These factors were important in
particular ways because of the peculiar disease process of MS,
especially its tendency to wax and wane in many patients and in
clinical symptoms.
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