Medicine-by-Post: The Changing Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Consultation Letters and Literature: Clio Medica, cartea 79
Autor Wayne Wilden Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 dec 2005
Medicine-by-Post uncovers the strategies of self-representation by both healers and patients, and reinterprets the meaning of illness and the medical encounter in eighteenth-century literature in the light of true-life experience. The tension between the patient’s personal needs and the doctor’s professional will presents a ready metaphor for the novelist, depicting the social expectations placed upon the individual as well as a measure of one’s moral character in the context of illness.
The correspondence also demonstrates the subtle changes in rhetoric regarding ‘sensibility’, reflecting evolving medical speculation. It also describes the differing perspectives of the female body between doctors and novelists and the women patients themselves. Yet much of this correspondence shows an unexpected blend of metaphor with a realistic and utilitarian approach to therapeutic advice and the patient’s own compliance. In these letters we discover some genuinely sympathetic doctors.
Din seria Clio Medica
- 5% Preț: 758.56 lei
- 5% Preț: 842.79 lei
- 5% Preț: 804.52 lei
- 5% Preț: 802.66 lei
- 5% Preț: 791.49 lei
- 5% Preț: 732.18 lei
- 5% Preț: 705.04 lei
- 5% Preț: 268.67 lei
- 5% Preț: 325.94 lei
- 5% Preț: 780.05 lei
- 5% Preț: 783.48 lei
- 5% Preț: 177.06 lei
- 5% Preț: 845.19 lei
- 5% Preț: 847.72 lei
- 5% Preț: 240.04 lei
- 5% Preț: 189.74 lei
- 5% Preț: 633.81 lei
- 5% Preț: 351.72 lei
- 5% Preț: 489.51 lei
- 5% Preț: 584.19 lei
- 5% Preț: 685.23 lei
- 5% Preț: 207.25 lei
- 5% Preț: 726.88 lei
- 5% Preț: 866.31 lei
- 5% Preț: 397.76 lei
- 5% Preț: 778.26 lei
- 5% Preț: 295.70 lei
- 5% Preț: 778.44 lei
- 5% Preț: 726.54 lei
- 5% Preț: 192.35 lei
- 5% Preț: 450.35 lei
- 5% Preț: 141.67 lei
- 5% Preț: 562.44 lei
- 5% Preț: 543.38 lei
- 5% Preț: 451.62 lei
- 5% Preț: 781.61 lei
- 5% Preț: 614.69 lei
- 5% Preț: 202.03 lei
- 5% Preț: 581.15 lei
- 5% Preț: 199.59 lei
Preț: 492.15 lei
Preț vechi: 518.05 lei
-5% Nou
Puncte Express: 738
Preț estimativ în valută:
94.19€ • 97.84$ • 78.24£
94.19€ • 97.84$ • 78.24£
Carte indisponibilă temporar
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Se trimite...
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789042018686
ISBN-10: 9042018682
Dimensiuni: 150 x 225 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Clio Medica
ISBN-10: 9042018682
Dimensiuni: 150 x 225 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Clio Medica
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Patients and their Doctors in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Etiquette, Eclecticism, and Ethics
2 New Science Rhetoric in Medicine-by-Post: The Private Practice Correspondence of Dr James Jurin
3 George Cheyne: A Very Public Private Doctor
4 The Correspondence of Dr William Cullen: Scottish Enlightenment and New Directions in Medicine-by-Post
5 Literary Applications of Medicine-by-Post
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Patients and their Doctors in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Etiquette, Eclecticism, and Ethics
2 New Science Rhetoric in Medicine-by-Post: The Private Practice Correspondence of Dr James Jurin
3 George Cheyne: A Very Public Private Doctor
4 The Correspondence of Dr William Cullen: Scottish Enlightenment and New Directions in Medicine-by-Post
5 Literary Applications of Medicine-by-Post
Bibliography
Index
Notă biografică
Wayne Wild received his BA and MD from Columbia University, and his PhD in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. He currently teaches both English and Aesthetics at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He also facilitates seminars in literature and medicine for practising physicians.
Recenzii
"The idea for this book was a fascinating one […] Wild is genuinely engaged by the interplay between culture, medicine and literature of the period and has set out to present an inter-disciplinary study, attractive and useful."
– in: Social History of Medicine 20 (2007), pp. 652-654
"In this scholarly, interdisciplinary study, Wayne Wild provides a valuable analysis of the shifting rhetorical styles that typically characterized epistolary exchanges between eighteenth-century physicians and their patients…. His engaging study will be of value to medical historians concerned with the rhetoric of illness as well as to literary scholars engaged with medical culture and the body."
– in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82/2 (2008), pp. 446-447
"Wild’s study of medical correspondence is engaging and thought-provoking… Medicine-by-post greatly adds to our understanding of this aspect of medical practice."
– in: Medical History 52/2 (2008), pp. 294–295
"Wayne Wild’s book is, as its title proclaims, about the practice of postal consultation and treatment… considerable attention given to analysing the rhetoric utilised by the physicians whose correspondence is reviewed… the copious notes provided, defining terms and expanding on points made in the text, as well as providing bibliographic references, are very welcome."
– in: Wellcome History 41 (2009), 19
– in: Social History of Medicine 20 (2007), pp. 652-654
"In this scholarly, interdisciplinary study, Wayne Wild provides a valuable analysis of the shifting rhetorical styles that typically characterized epistolary exchanges between eighteenth-century physicians and their patients…. His engaging study will be of value to medical historians concerned with the rhetoric of illness as well as to literary scholars engaged with medical culture and the body."
– in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82/2 (2008), pp. 446-447
"Wild’s study of medical correspondence is engaging and thought-provoking… Medicine-by-post greatly adds to our understanding of this aspect of medical practice."
– in: Medical History 52/2 (2008), pp. 294–295
"Wayne Wild’s book is, as its title proclaims, about the practice of postal consultation and treatment… considerable attention given to analysing the rhetoric utilised by the physicians whose correspondence is reviewed… the copious notes provided, defining terms and expanding on points made in the text, as well as providing bibliographic references, are very welcome."
– in: Wellcome History 41 (2009), 19