The Politics of Personal Experience
How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP), this book analyzes how various historians have managed “the personal” and their scholarship. It shows how influen...
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| description | How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP), this book analyzes how various historians have managed “the personal” and their scholarship. It shows how influences on history such as anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory have furnished the tools for historians to be critical about their selfhood and their scholarship. It also examines how histories that try to resist the marginalisation of groups (on grounds of gender, race, sexuality and mental health) have sophisticated discussions around the implications of the historian’s experiences for their scholarship. While these have been intermittently taken up in various ways, discussions of the specific implications of experiences on the scholarship remain rare. The book uses these discussions and these tools throughout an archival and intellectual history of the diagnoses of Munchausen and MSbP, showing specific implications for this study and proper accounting of the shape and content of this history. This groundbreaking volume offers academic historians an opportunity for reflection on the link between who they consider themselves to be, and what they think, argue and write. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1738002026-03-19T14:16:24Z The Politics of Personal Experience Millard, Chris Medical History Historiography methodology Munchausen Syndrome Illness narratives Historiography Psychoanalytic theory Philosophy of History Critical self-reflection Theory of History Gender and mental health Archival research techniques Historian subjectivity in diagnosis thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP), this book analyzes how various historians have managed “the personal” and their scholarship. It shows how influences on history such as anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory have furnished the tools for historians to be critical about their selfhood and their scholarship. It also examines how histories that try to resist the marginalisation of groups (on grounds of gender, race, sexuality and mental health) have sophisticated discussions around the implications of the historian’s experiences for their scholarship. While these have been intermittently taken up in various ways, discussions of the specific implications of experiences on the scholarship remain rare. The book uses these discussions and these tools throughout an archival and intellectual history of the diagnoses of Munchausen and MSbP, showing specific implications for this study and proper accounting of the shape and content of this history. This groundbreaking volume offers academic historians an opportunity for reflection on the link between who they consider themselves to be, and what they think, argue and write. 2026-03-19T14:16:21Z 2026-03-19T14:16:21Z 2026-03-17T10:37:04Z 2026 book ONIX_20260316T122834_9781040805732_7 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111805 9781040805732 9781040805800 9781003684824 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173800 eng Routledge Approaches to History open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111805/1/9781040805732.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003684824 10.4324/9781003684824 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040805732 9781040805800 9781003684824 Routledge 216 Oxford open access |
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| topic | Medical History Historiography methodology Munchausen Syndrome Illness narratives Historiography Psychoanalytic theory Philosophy of History Critical self-reflection Theory of History Gender and mental health Archival research techniques Historian subjectivity in diagnosis thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history |
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