Punch-Drunk Slugnuts
Violence and the Vernacular History of Disease
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3268993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen T Casper (0000-0003-2915-8592, Clarkson University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 266-288 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/719720 |
| OpenAlex | W4281401801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 48 |
The observation that neurological illnesses follow recurrent hits to the head was tempered by the terms that first called the diseases into scientific existence: "punch-drunk," "slugnutty," "slaphappy," "goofy," "punchy," and a host of other colloquialisms accompanying class identities. Thus the discovery of disease and its medicalization ran straight into a countervailing belief about losers—losers in boxing, losers in life, losers in general. To medicalize such individuals was to fly in the face of a culture that made them jokes. Yet a subculture began to emerge around pathological understandings: first in medicine, then in journalism, then in the courts, and finally with patient accounts about illness
Art · Criminology · Disease · Face (sociological concept · Journalism · Literature · Media studies · Medicalization · Pathology · Psychiatry · Social science · Sociology · Vernacular · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Neurology and Historical Studies
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |