Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0770605

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0770605

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Psychosomatic Illness in Early Modern Italy: lessons for modern psychiatric theory and practice. This pioneering collaboration between researchers in humanities and medicine will investigate the ways psychosomatic illness was defined and spread in early modern Italy. Epidemics of such illness still occur today and have had a major social and economic impact on Australia in recent decades. Our project will draw lessons for modern psychiatric theory and practice from historical and cultural differences in the conceptualisation and communication of 'hypochondria'. It will shed light on a very contemporary ethical dilemma in psychiatry: should doctors lie to 'hypochondriacal' patients? It will also contribute to current debates on the role of disease labels and information in the incidence and 'infectiousness' of psychosomatic illness.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 22-02-2007

End Date: 31-12-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $128,882.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | Psychiatry | Literature Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | History And Philosophy Of Medicine |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Mental health |

Other Keywords

History And Philosophy Of Medicine | History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | Languages and Literature | Literature Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Mental health | Psychiatry | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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