ISBN |
0691147825 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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ISBN13桁 |
9780691147826 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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テキストの言語 |
英語
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分類:NDC10版 |
493.13
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個人著者標目 |
Lamb, Jonathan,
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生没年等 |
1945-
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本タイトル |
Scurvy :
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タイトル関連情報 |
the disease of discovery /
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著者名 |
Jonathan Lamb ; with a coda written by James May and Fiona Harrison.
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出版地・頒布地 |
Princeton, New Jersey :
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出版者・頒布者名 |
Princeton University Press,
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出版年・頒布年 |
c2017.
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数量 |
xii, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
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他の形態的事項 |
illustrations (some color) ;
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大きさ |
25 cm.
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書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-298) and index.
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内容注記 |
Prolegomena -- Enigma -- Effluvia -- Nostalgia -- Australia -- Genera mixta -- Coda.
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要約、抄録、注釈等 |
"Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered between disgust and delight. In this book, Jonathan Lamb presents an intellectual history of scurvy unlike any other, probing the speechless encounter with powerful sensations to tell the story of the disease that its victims couldn't because they found their illness too terrible and, in some cases, too exciting. Drawing on historical accounts from scientists and voyagers as well as major literary works, Lamb traces the cultural impact of scurvy during the eighteenth-century age of geographical and scientific discovery. He explains the medical knowledge surrounding scurvy and the debates about its cause, prevention, and attempted cures. He vividly describes the phenomenon and experience of "scorbutic nostalgia," in which victims imagined mirages of food, water, or home, and then wept when such pleasures proved impossible to consume or reach. Lamb argues that a culture of scurvy arose in the colony of Australia, which was prey to the disease in its early years, and identifies a literature of scurvy in the works of such figures as Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Francis Bacon, and Jonathan Swift." --Publisher description.
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著者標目 |
Harrison, Fiona (Fiona E.)
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一般件名 |
Scurvy.
Scurvy -- History. |
資料情報1 |
『Scurvy :
the disease of discovery /』 Jonathan Lamb ; with a coda written by James May and Fiona Harrison. Princeton University Press, c2017.
(所蔵館:中央
請求記号:F/493.13/L21/S
資料コード:7108862822)
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URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352026332 |