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Those authors, who were not physicians and had more or less antagonistic relationships with them, contributed in their own way to the rise of the notion of <jats:italic>historia<\/jats:italic> in the 16th century. Their texts offer a choice object to both historians of literature and historians of medicine who have become interested in the point of view of the patient, a long neglected protagonist in traditional historiography. This chapter sets out to examine the underlying enunciative and phenomenological issues at stake in this subjective expression of pain, shifting from the physician\u2019s point of view, which includes the patient\u2019s account in the production of the diagnosis (La Martini\u00e8re), to the story told by the sympathetic friend castigating Dame Pox (Habert) and finally to the patient\u2019s self-observation (Gr\u00fcnpeck, Von Hutten). Finally, the rhetorical, therapeutic and epistemological functions of the narrative of suffering will be examined, narrative being defined, in Paul Ricoeur\u2019s (1983) sense, as a \u201cwork of synthesis,\u201d a process of \u201csynthesis of the heterogeneous,\u201d that is to say a logical and chronological ordering of different actions and events both relating to the patients\u2019 organic lives and to their existence in the world. Narrating necessarily involves describing, and indeed the description of symptoms is a pivotal moment in autopathographic works in which the order of discourse compensates for the unclear experience of symptoms by reorganizing it through the use of sensationalist rhetorical amplification.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1075\/sin.20.04bra","type":"book-chapter","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,3,10]],"date-time":"2015-03-10T10:42:12Z","timestamp":1425984132000},"page":"47-70","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Pox pain and redeeming narratives in Renaissance Europe"],"prefix":"10.1075","author":[{"given":"Dominique","family":"Brancher","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"1757","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,3,6]]},"reference":[{"volume-title":"Breviarum Constantini dictum viaticum","author":"Constantin l\u2019Africain","key":"sin.20.04bra-CIT0001"},{"volume-title":"Tractado co[n]tra el mal serpentino q[ue] vulgarmente en Espana es llamado bubas que fue ordenado en el ospital de Todos los Santos d[e] Lisboa","year":"1539","author":"Diaz de Isla","key":"sin.20.04bra-CIT0002"},{"issue":"5","key":"sin.20.04bra-CIT0003","volume":"XV","author":"Fumi","year":"1925","journal-title":"Diario di Ser Tommasso di Silvestro in Ephemerides Urbevetanae dal Codice Vaticano Urbinate 1745 (AA. 1482-1514)"},{"volume-title":"Les Contes et discours d\u2019Eutrapel","year":"1598","author":"Du Fail","key":"sin.20.04bra-CIT0004"},{"key":"sin.20.04bra-CIT0005","article-title":"Petit traitt\u00e9 de la Verole","volume-title":"Toutes les \u0152uvres","author":"Du Laurens","year":"1621"},{"volume-title":"La Rhetorique Francoise d\u2019Antoine Foclin de Chauny en Vermandois","year":"1555","author":"Fouquelin","key":"sin.20.04bra-CIT0006"},{"volume-title":"Syphilis, or, A poetical history of the French disease, written in Latin by Fracastorius; and now attempted in English by N. 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