Medicine and Narration in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Sophie Vasset |
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Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Communication in medicine |
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Author | : Sophie Vasset |
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Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Communication in medicine |
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Author | : L. J. Rather |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
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Author | : Sophie Vasset |
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Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2013 |
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ISBN | : 9781786947956 |
How did doctors argue in eighteenth-century medical pamphlet wars? How literary, or clinical, is Diderot’s depiction of mad nuns? What is at stake in the account of a cataract operation at the beginning of Jean-Paul’s novel Hesperus? In this pioneering volume, contributors extend current research at the intersection of medicine and literature by examining the overlapping narrative strategies in the writings of both novelists and doctors.Focusing on a wide variety of sources, an interdisciplinary team of researchers explores the nature and function of narration as an underlying principle of such writing. From a reading of correspondence between doctors as a means of continuing professional education, to the use of inoculation as a plotting device, or an examination of Diderot’s physiological approach to mental illness inLa Religieuse, contributors highlight:how doctors exploited rhetorical techniques in both clinical writing and correspondence with patients.how novelists incorporated medical knowledge into their narratives.how models such as case-histories or narrative poetry were adopted and transformed in both fictional and actual medical writing.how these narrative strategies shaped the way in which doctors, patients and illnesses were represented and perceived in the eighteenth century. ‘[...] the essays improve our knowledge of how the history of science and medicine converge with the literature of the eighteenth century. This book must be commended for each piece’s lively and accessible writing, making it an enjoyable read for both historians and literary scholars.’- Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Author | : L. J. Rather |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2022-05-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0520307895 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Author | : Irma Taavitsainen |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9789027203229 |
This volume provides a comprehensive description of the main developments in medicine in 1700-1800, based on the corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT). Its main focus is on language use in context, with stylistic variation according to genres, authors and audiences. The book is accompanied by a CD-rom containing the corpus.
Author | : L. J. Jordanova |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Lisa Forman Cody |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351870734 |
The four works in this volume are the only known exclusively medical texts written by women during the Restoration. Their importance is denoted by their dramatic challenge to the generalisations once made about medical practice and female healers in this period. Jane Sharp's The Midwives Book was the first and only midwifery manual to be printed in English before 1700, and continued to be influential into the early eighteenth century. The principal focus of Elizabeth Cellier's To Dr.--- (1688) is the attempt to legitimate the notion of a female corporation of midwives through historical precedent. To Dr.--- was in fact borne out of a previously unpublished effort, 'A Scheme for the Foundation of a Royal Hospital', sent to James II in 1687. In the document, Cellier outlined a specific scheme for training female midwives and supporting poor, pregnant women and abandoned children. Mary Trye began practising 'chymical physic' at her father's side in London in 1663. Her only known work, Medicatrix, was published in 1675. Trye claimed female medical authorship to be unique, in that women observed nature truly and administered genuine medical solutions to the sick. The writings of Sharp, Cellier and Trye have helped to overturn historians' assumptions about a woman's role in medicine and healing. These texts reveal their female authors to be as learned in the humanities and sciences as they were in medical matters.
Author | : Alfred Wesley Hill |
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Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Medicine |
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Wesley's view of health and disease was essentially theological. The most enlightened physicians of his time placed the vis medicatrix naturae centrally in their therapy, and used such methods as they thought would assist and not hinder her healing power. Wesley was not content to think in terms of nature's healing, but looked beyond to the Author of nature, deeming Him to be wholly desirous for the good of his creatures. - Epilogue.