The Great Pox, Symptoms, and Social Bodies in Early Modern Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12207752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cristian Berco (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-244 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social History of Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-631X • E-ISSN: 1477-4666 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/shm/hku097 |
| OpenAlex | W2125014098 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 5 |
The Great Pox marked the early modern era. Not only did this chronic disease lead to long-term shifts in medical knowledge, but it also reached across the social spectrum to touch individuals, families, and communities of all guises. As such, pox infection reflected the complexity of managing symptoms that were at once medically and socially evaluated. This article explores the social and cultural meanings attached to the poxed body through an analysis of Spanish medical, literary, and patient sources. How was the poxed body understood in everyday contexts? How did social concerns affect medical discourse on the disease? What strategies did the ill use to navigate the socially-charged repercussions of visible symptoms? Ultimately, patients developed techniques of obfuscation and ambivalence to manage the social framing of their diseased bodies evident in medical and popular literature
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Ambivalence · Art · Broad spectrum · Disease · Everyday life · Framing (construction · Multimodality · Pathology · Political science · Sociology · Medicine · Psychology · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Communication · History · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |