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Further Readings

Primary Sources

  • Johannes Hofer, Dissertatio Medica de Nostalgia, oder Heimwehe. Basel: Typis Jacobi Bertschii, 1688.
  • Theodor Zwinger, Fasciculus Dissertationum Medicarum Selectiorum. Basel: Typis Joh. Conradi à Mechel, 1710.
  • Johann Georg Zimmermann, Von der Erfahrung in der Arzneykunst. Zürich: Drell, Gessner, Füeslim. 1777.
  • François Bossier de le Croix de Sauvages, Nosologia Methodica Sistems Morborum Classes. Amsterdam: Touraes, 1768.
  • Louis David Muret, Dissertatio Medica de Nostalgia in Helvetis Praesertim Considerata. Montpellier: J. F. Picot, 1780.
  • Thomas Arnold, Observations on the Nature, Kinds, Causes, and Prevention of Insanity. Leicester: G. Ireland, 1782.
  • William Falconer, A Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon Disorders of the Body. London: C. Dilly and J. Phillips, 1788.
  • Pierre François Percy, “Nostalgie” in Nouveau Dictionnaire de Médecine et de Chirurgie Pratiques. Paris: Ballière, 1819.
  • Dominique Jean Larrey, “On the Seat and Effects of Nostalgia” in Surgical Essays. Baltimore: Maxwell, 1823.
  • J. Theodore Calhoun, “Nostalgia as a Disease of Field Service” in Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1864.
  • William A. Hammond, A Treatise on Insanity in Its Medical Relations. New York: D. Appleton, 1883.
  • S. Weir Mitchell, “The Medical Department in the Civil War” in Journal of the American Medical Association, 1914.
  • Par Claudius Caire, “Sur La Nostalgie” in Theses Le Doctorat En Medecine. Paris: Rignoux, 1852.
  • William Cullen, Synopsis and Nosology: Being an Arrangement and Definition of Diseases, Edinburgi: Kincaid & W. Creech, 1772.
  • Alexis Miquel, Tentamen Medicum De Nostalgia, Gallice Maladie Du Pays, Monspellii: Joannem Martel Natu Majorem, 1778.
  • Jesse Torrey, A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States, Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1817.

Secondary Sources

  • Ahad-Legardy, B. (2021) Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture. University of Illinois Press.
  • Dean Jr., E. T. (1997). Shook over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War. Harvard University Press.
  • Dodman, T. (2018). What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion. Chicago University Press.
  • Lamb, J. (2013). Scorbutic nostalgia. Journal for Maritime Research, 15(1), 27-36, DOI:10.1080/21533369.2013.783165
  • Matt, S. J. (2011). Homesickness: An American History. Oxford University Press.
  • Schroeder, J. D. S. (2018) What was Black Nostalgia? American Literary History, 30(4), 653-676. DOI: doi:10.1093/alh/ajy04
  • Silva, C. (2014). Nostalgia and The Good Life. The Eighteen Century, 55(1), 123-128. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24575159
  • Starobinski, J., Kemp, W. S. (1966). The Idea of Nostalgia. Diogenes, 14(54), 81–103. DOI:10.1177/039219216601405405
  • Tobin, J. (2021) Nostalgia: the forgotten illness. History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group, 13(Autumn), 16-18. Retrieved March 31, 2022, from https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/members/special-interest-groups/history-of-psychiatry/newsletters
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