Altbauer-Rudnik Michal
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 23594, IL-91234 Jerusalem.
Gesnerus. 2006;63(1-2):33-45.
The concept of "illness's social course" can be approached from two stand-points. We can trace both the way the social world shapes the course of an illness and the way an illness' symptoms shape the social world. The purpose of this study is to locate the specific illness of love melancholy in a specific historical and social context, namely that of France and England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, in order to explain the intense discussion on the disorder during that period. This attempt is done with respect to the two dimensions of the concept of "illness' social course" and in the light of constructivist commentary on psychological disorders, which regards them as local stress idioms shaped by a specific social and cultural context.
“疾病的社会进程”这一概念可以从两个角度来探讨。我们既可以追溯社会世界塑造疾病进程的方式，也可以追溯疾病症状塑造社会世界的方式。本研究的目的是将“爱情忧郁症”这一特定疾病置于特定的历史和社会背景中，即16世纪末和17世纪初的法国和英国，以便解释那个时期对该病症的激烈讨论。这一尝试是针对“疾病的社会进程”这一概念的两个维度进行的，并参照了对心理障碍的建构主义评论，该评论将心理障碍视为由特定社会和文化背景塑造的局部压力表述方式。
