The Anglican patient
Robert Boyle and the "Medicalised Self" in early modern England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5823970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Pender (University of Windsor, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 455-483 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Seventeenth Century (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-117X • E-ISSN: 2050-4616 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0268117x.2015.1077471 |
| OpenAlex | W2274562943 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 73 |
In Occasional Reflections upon the Accidents of an Ague (1665), Robert Boyle investigates the symptoms, signs, and causes of a vexing quartan fever. Boyle's sickness inspires an exploration of the promises and perils of medicine, in which he tests both regimen and remedy. As he writes through his suffering, Boyle recognises that the eclecticism, eloquence, and flexibility of medical thought provide ways of preserving and re-describing agency and interest, ways of shaping and organising the self. As an "Anglican patient," Boyle probes counsel, temperance, repentance, and fears of relapse, seeking a via media between enlisting medical assistance and enjoining spiritual rectitude, between curing and caring. His meditations interiorise the world in order to discover the social dimensions, and shared vocabularies, of suffering and the self, the latter embedded in conversations devoted to cure
Patience · Repentance · Historical Philosophy and Science · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History of Medicine Studies
Science incarnate
The double face of Janus and other essays in the history of medicine
Songs of Experience
Neostoicism and the Early Modern State
Chapter Six. From the Native's Point of View
The Birth of the Clinic
Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity
Physiological Theory and the Doctrine of the Mean in Plato and Aristotle
Proof and Persuasion
Galen on logic and therapy
The Sense of Suffering
The Letterbooks of John Evelyn
Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity
Discipline and Experience
The Tremulous Private Body
Alienation and the production of strangers
The Story of All Things
Rhetoric and the Social Construction of Sickness and Healing
Heat and moisture, rhetoric and spiritus
Probability and literary form
Taming Anger's Daughters
Casuistry in Action
Inwardness and Theatre in the English Renaissance
The "Inward" Language
Between Medicine and Rhetoric
Probability and Literary Form
Anatomy as Rhetoric
Robert Boyle (1627–91)
Examples and experience
Psychoanalysis and the scientific mind
The Body's Moment
Sources of the self
Renaissance self-fashioning
Passion and Action
Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution
Science on the Move
Physiological Theory and the Doctrine of the Mean in Plato and Aristotle
How Boyle Became a Scientist
Virtuous Romance and Romantic Virtuoso
The Care of the Self and the Masculine Birth of Science
The Looking Glass of Facts
Walter Charleton, Robert Boyle, and the Acceptance of Epicurean Atomism in England
The Passions and the Interests
A Social History of Truth
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |