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Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth Century (Paperback, 1st ed. 2023)
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Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth Century (Paperback, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin
deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to
maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a
focus on the insanity that was caused by the disease, the authors
examine how thousands of patients were treated in Italian
psychiatric asylums, shedding light on the sufferer’s point of
view. Setting pellagrous insanity in a wider context of man-made or
societal (anthropogenic) disease, where poverty, diet and disease
meet, the book contributes to the history of medicine and science,
the history of psychiatry, economic and social history, agrarian
history, and food and nutrition history. Additionally, the authors
aim to transnationalise Italian history by making comparisons with
related issues, such as tertiary syphilis in the UK. Drawing from a
wide range of printed and archival sources, including the writings
of Italian medical investigators, the book examines how medical and
scientific research was carried out during the long nineteenth
century and the uncertainties that this engendered, in terms of
classification, explanation, diagnosis and treatment. Offering a
unique perspective on an endemic illness which came to be known as
the disease of the four ds: dermatitis; diarrhea; dementia; and
death, this book provides an engaging account of one of the most
perplexing causes of mental illness.
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