| The Time and Place of Nostalgia: Re-situating a French Disease. | |
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PMID: 22161872 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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The history of nostalgia as a clinical category has many highly specific national stories. This paper traces an aspect of this history, examining aspects of nostalgia's changing meanings in nineteenth-century France. Nostalgia was a disease triggered by displacement, which became medically and politically important after the French Revolution, when military surgeons encountered epidemics of nostalgia in the armed forces. Understood as a form of pathological homesickness, the category straddled environmental medicine and emerging ideas about insanity. The diagnosis became particularly important to Idéologue writers as a case study in regulating and redirecting the emotions, demonstrating the efficacy of their new "moral" treatments and an ability to generate patriotic attachment to the new nation state. Over the course of the century, nostalgia disintegrated as a medical condition reflecting a decline in environmental explanations for disease within medicine, and increasingly plastic meanings attached to nostalgic desire. |
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Lisa O'Sullivan |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-12-8 |
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Title: Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences Volume: - ISSN: 1468-4373 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Dec |
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Created Date: 2011-12-13 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0413415 Medline TA: J Hist Med Allied Sci Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of History, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD, UK. |
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