The Man Who Crucified Himself

Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35359-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 97, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

The Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational nineteenth-century medical case. In 1805 a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act raised a furore, and the story spread across Europe. For the rest of the century Lovat’s case fuelled scientific and popular debates on medicine, madness, suicide and religion. Drawing on Italian, German, English and French sources, Maria Böhmer traces the multiple readings of the case and identifies various 'interpretive communities'. Her meticulously researched study sheds new light on Lovat’s case and offers fresh insights on the case narrative as a genre - both epistemic and literary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Böhmer, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction


1 The Man Who Crucified Himself


2 The Storia della crocifissione as an Epistemic Genre


3 Making the Case Travel. Translation, Media, Reading



4 Professional Readings: Religion



5 Professional Readings: Madness



6 Professional Readings: Suicide



7 Popular Readings: Moral Education and Literary Entertainment



Epilogue


Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Böhmer, Ph.D. (2013), European University Institute Florence, Italy, is postdoctoral research fellow in the history of medicine at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.