A Cultural History of Aristotle's Masterpiece

亚里士多德杰作的文化史

• 批准号: 7765161
• 负责人: MARY E FISSELL
• 金额: $ 4.68万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-31 至 2012-05-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7765161
• 关键词: Adolescence; Americas; Birth; Blood Circulation; Books; Caring; Childbirth; England; Goals; Healthcare; History of Medicine; Knowledge; Learning; Literature; London; Marketing; Mattresses; Medical; Medicine; Methods; Midwifery; Modeling; Monsters; Morphologic artifacts; Mothers; Newborn Infant; Patients; Physicians; Pregnancy; Printing; Production; Published Comment; Publishing; Reader; Reading; Recording of previous events; Reproduction; Research; Sales; Scholarship; Sexuality; Side; Text; Time; Work; Writing; boys; flexibility; knowledge base; meetings; pleasure; response; sex; success

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): I propose to write the first history of Anglo-America's most enduring popular medical book, Aristotle's Masterpiece. First published in London in 1684, the book became an instant success, and was still for sale in the early twentieth century. My analysis focuses upon readership to understand how and why the book appealed over such a long time span in both England and America. I argue that the book was both canonical, widely known to provide advice about sex and reproduction, but also flexible, tweaked by printers and publishers to adapt to changing markets. The Masterpiece in its various forms offers a rare window into plebian sexual cultures as well as rich evidence of ordinary people's interactions with the printed book. More generally, the project builds a model for investigating such vernacular knowledge, the basis of most health care until recently. Drawing upon the methods of cultural history, I argue that we need to understand how knowledge was circulated, consumed, and reproduced in changing contexts.

描述（由申请人提供）： 我打算写英美最经久不衰的流行医学著作《亚里士多德的杰作》的第一部历史。这本书于1684年在伦敦首次出版，立即获得了成功，在世纪初仍然在销售。我的分析集中在读者群上，以了解这本书在英国和美国如此长的时间跨度内是如何以及为什么吸引人的。我认为，这本书既是经典的，广为人知的提供有关性和生殖的建议，但也是灵活的，由印刷商和出版商调整，以适应不断变化的市场。这部杰作以其各种形式提供了一个罕见的窗口，让人们了解平民的性文化，以及普通人与印刷书籍互动的丰富证据。更一般地说，该项目建立了一个模型，用于调查这种本土知识，直到最近大多数医疗保健的基础。借鉴文化史的方法，我认为，我们需要了解知识是如何在不断变化的背景下流通，消费和复制。