Pathologies of travel / edited by Richard Wrigley and George Revill.

Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 2000.

v, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"This volume originated in a conference held at the Humanities Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University in 1996."

Letting madness range : travel and mental disorder, c. 1700-1900 / Jonathon Andrews.--The continental journeys of Andrew Duncan Junior : a physician's education and the international culture of 18th century medicine / Malcolm Nicolson.--Richard Jago's "Edge-Hill" revisited : a traveller's prospect of the health and disease of a succession of national landscapes / Matthew Craske.--"The rime of the ancient mariner" : a ballad of the scurvy / Jonathon Lamb.--Lassitude and revival in the warm South : relaxing and exciting travel (1750-1830) / Chloe Chard.--Pathological topographies and cultural itineraries : mappping "mal'aria" in 18th- and 19th-century Rome / Richard Wrigley.--The railway journey and the neuroses of modernity / Ralph Harrington.--Mobility, syphilis, and democracy : pathologizing the mobile body / Tim Cresswell.--The politics of medical topography : seeking healthiness at the Cape during the 19th century / Harriet Deacon.--Sleepers wake : André Gide and disease in "Travels in the Congo" / Russell West.

Includes bibliographical references and index.