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Autore |
Wild Wayne |
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Titolo |
Medicine-by-post [[electronic resource] ] : the changing voice of illness in eighteenth-century British consulation letters and literature / / Wayne Wild |
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Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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94-012-0235-4 |
1-4294-8090-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (293 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Wellcome series in the history of medicine |
Clio medica, , 0045-7183 ; ; 79 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medicine - Great Britain - History |
Physicians - Great Britain - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-274) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Patients and their Doctors in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Etiquette, Eclecticism, and Ethics -- New Science Rhetoric in Medicine-by-Post: The Private Practice Correspondence of Dr James Jurin -- George Cheyne: A Very Public Private Doctor -- The Correspondence of Dr William Cullen: Scottish Enlightenment and New Directions in Medicine-by-Post -- Literary Applications of Medicine-by-Post -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Medicine-by-Post is an interdisciplinary study that will engage readers both in the history of medicine and the eighteenth-century novel. The correspondence from the large private practices of James Jurin, George Cheyne, and William Cullen opens a unique window on the doctor–patient relationship in England and Scotland from this period. The letters, many previously unpublished, reveal a changing rhetoric that mirrors contemporary shifts in medical theory and the patient’s self-image. 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 |
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