Pellagra and Pellagrous insanity during the long Nineteenth century / David Gentilcore, Egidio Priani.
Gentilcore, David, author.; Priani, Egidio, author.
2023
RA790.7.I8
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Title Pellagra and Pellagrous insanity during the long Nineteenth century / David Gentilcore, Egidio Priani.
Author Gentilcore, David, author.
ISBN 9783031224966 (electronic bk.)
3031224965 (electronic bk.)
9783031224959
9783031224980
3031224957
3031224981
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22496-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume.) : illustrations (black and white).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-22496-6 doi
Call Number RA790.7.I8
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.2094509034
Summary This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, which ravaged Italy from 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 sufferers 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 and patient records, 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 deaththis book provides an engaging account of one of the most perplexing causes of mental illness.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Open access.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Priani, Egidio, author.
Series Mental health in historical perspective.
Available in Other Form PELLAGRA AND PELLAGROUS INSANITY DURING THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY.
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1. Rough Skin: An Introduction
Part I. Pellagra
2. Medical Reactions to a New Disease in the Eighteenth Century
3. The Aetiological Turn in the Nineteenth Century
4.The Bacteriological Divide: Pellagra in Italy and the United States during the Twentieth Century
Interlude: Patient Voices
Part II. Pellagrous Insanity
5. Institutionalising Pellagrous Insanity
6. Understanding Insanity: Pellagra and General Paralysis of the Insane in Italy and the United Kingdom
7. Experiencing the Asylum
8. Conclusion: Leaving the Asylum.

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