Book contents
- Frances Burney and the Doctors
- Frances Burney and the Doctors
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Short Titles
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Frances Burney’s Long and Extraordinary Life: 1752–1840
- Chapter 2 The King, the Court, and ‘Madness’: 1788–1789
- Chapter 3 Aftermath: 1789–1791
- Chapter 4 An Inoculation for Smallpox: 1797
- Chapter 5 A Mastectomy: 1811
- Chapter 6 Fighting for Life
- Chapter 7 Between Hope, Trust, and Truth: 1965–2015
- Chapter 8 Patienthood across Two Centuries
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 8 - Patienthood across Two Centuries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2019
- Frances Burney and the Doctors
- Frances Burney and the Doctors
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Short Titles
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Frances Burney’s Long and Extraordinary Life: 1752–1840
- Chapter 2 The King, the Court, and ‘Madness’: 1788–1789
- Chapter 3 Aftermath: 1789–1791
- Chapter 4 An Inoculation for Smallpox: 1797
- Chapter 5 A Mastectomy: 1811
- Chapter 6 Fighting for Life
- Chapter 7 Between Hope, Trust, and Truth: 1965–2015
- Chapter 8 Patienthood across Two Centuries
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The medical occasions in Frances Burney’s life that are the focus of this book took place at widely separated times over thirty years, and in widely different locales: in the embattled residences of the royal court, in a small house in rural Hampshire, in the drawing room of a house on a busy Parisian street, where straw had been laid to deaden the sound of the carriage horses passing, and in rented premises in Bath. They obviously concern quite different medical conditions too.
But one thing they have in common is that they all take place in domestic settings. Even the king’s illness was managed in his own apartments, and Burney’s own psychological and physical decline was treated, if it were treated at all, largely within Windsor Castle, whether in grand or in confined rooms.
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- Frances Burney and the DoctorsPatient Narratives Then and Now, pp. 174 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019