Irritable Heart Syndrome in Anglo-American Medical Thought at the End of the Nineteenth Century (2014)
Vilarinho, Yuri C. (Author)
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 21, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 1151-1177
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Portuguese.
Language: Portuguese
This paper examines the characteristics and the conditions for the emergence of the nosological category known as irritable heart syndrome to be found in Anglo-American medical literature in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the context of the American Civil War, it looks at some of the socio-historical elements, which comprised the medical care given to certain cardiac symptoms shown by soldiers. It emphasizes the moral values influencing the medical attitudes of military physicians towards symptoms of fear experienced by combatants, as well as the British and American etiological theories, which contributed to the nosological characterization of the suffering of soldiers afflicted with palpitations. Finally, it offers a brief analysis of the specific nature of the medical category known as irritable heart syndrome in the light of the categories of fear described by current psychiatric nosology.
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