The emergence of postpartum pathology: sixteenth century discourse on postpartum depression

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dc.check.date2029-09-30
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dc.contributor.advisorHarris, Jason
dc.contributor.authorCronin, Laura
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Council
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-20T10:42:03Z
dc.date.available2024-06-20T10:42:03Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.date.submitted2023
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dc.description.abstractThis thesis constitutes the first detailed study of the learned medical engagement with postpartum mood disorders through analysis of the evolution of postpartum pathology in the Western Latin print tradition of the sixteenth century (c.1550 – 1603). Historical overviews of these phenomena have typically omitted the progress which occurred during this period, in favour of a synopsis that passes from the works of Hippocrates (c.460 BCE – c.375 BCE) straight to the scholarly advancements of the nineteenth century. This thesis emends that omission and examines the extent to which postpartum insanity was recognised, discussed, categorised, and treated by early modern learned physicians by engaging with theoretical texts in addition to clinical case studies. It therefore investigates the connection between postpartum women and their experiences of insanity as interpreted by medical professionals of the sixteenth century. This thesis finds that while the interpretation of postpartum insanity was certainly not a uniform concept, or unequivocally recognised as a distinctly puerperal phenomenon, the documenting and collating of examples of mental alienation that had an indisputable connection to the maternal body increased significantly during this period and evolved to reflect contemporary knowledge at different stages of the century.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationCronin, L. 2023. The emergence of postpartum pathology: sixteenth century discourse on postpartum depression. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.
dc.identifier.endpage223
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16029
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.relation.projectIrish Research Council (Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship)
dc.rights© 2023, Laura Cronin.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectPostpartum
dc.subjectPathology
dc.subjectSixteenth century
dc.subjectPostpartum depression
dc.subjectDepression
dc.subjectLatin
dc.subjectEarly modern Europe
dc.titleThe emergence of postpartum pathology: sixteenth century discourse on postpartum depression
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD - Doctor of Philosophyen
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