{"id":3310,"date":"2022-03-22T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2022-03-04T11:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T10:00:46","slug":"from-blocked-flows-to-suppressed-emotions-the-life-of-a-trope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2022\/03\/22\/from-blocked-flows-to-suppressed-emotions-the-life-of-a-trope\/","title":{"rendered":"From Blocked Flows to Suppressed Emotions: The Life of a Trope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Article Summary by Stewart Justman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">This article looks into the traditional notion that disease results from excesses pent up in the body and that treatment consists of getting rid of them.\u00a0 Interested readers will discover variants of this topos in surprising places\u2014for example, in the 18<sup>th<\/sup>-century belief that smallpox resident in the body could be discharged through inoculation. The point is that a concept held as deeply as that of the obstructive nature of disease or the evacuative nature of treatment does not disappear easily.\u00a0 Arguably, such concepts remain in play even now.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Read the full article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mh.bmj.com\/content\/48\/1\/17\"><strong>Medical Humanities journal website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3311 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/02\/Justman-Stewart-From-blocked-flows-to-suppressed-emotions-the-life-of-a-trope-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stewart Justman\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/02\/Justman-Stewart-From-blocked-flows-to-suppressed-emotions-the-life-of-a-trope-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/02\/Justman-Stewart-From-blocked-flows-to-suppressed-emotions-the-life-of-a-trope-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/02\/Justman-Stewart-From-blocked-flows-to-suppressed-emotions-the-life-of-a-trope-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/02\/Justman-Stewart-From-blocked-flows-to-suppressed-emotions-the-life-of-a-trope.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I write about literature and medicine in a spirit of constructive skepticism, and am particularly interested in the evaluation of evidence. My website is <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/stewartjustman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">stewartjustman.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Summary by Stewart Justman This article looks into the traditional notion that disease results from excesses pent up in the body and that treatment consists of getting rid of them.\u00a0 Interested readers will discover variants of this topos in surprising places\u2014for example, in the 18th-century belief that smallpox resident in the body could be [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2022\/03\/22\/from-blocked-flows-to-suppressed-emotions-the-life-of-a-trope\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15028],"tags":[15044],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-announcements","tag-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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