LEADER 03370 am 2200805 n 450 001 9910220010303321 005 20191201 010 $a88-5526-038-3 024 7 $a10.4000/books.ledizioni.8204 035 $a(CKB)3800000000216614 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-ledizioni-8204 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/43588 035 $a(PPN)242886426 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000216614 100 $a20200116j|||||||| ||| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auu||||||m|||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCommunicating Medicine $eBritish Medical Doscourse in Eighteenth-Century Reference Works /$fElisabetta Lonati 210 $aMilano $cLedizioni$d2019 215 $a1 online resource (165 p.) 225 1 $aDi/Segni 311 $a88-6705-605-0 330 $aThis study investigates eighteenth-century medical writing, particularly concerning the elaboration and the communication of medicine in such reference works as universal dictionaries of arts and sciences, medical dictionaries, and handbooks. Most of the vernacular texts under scrutiny here were issued in the second half of the century, a period in which the advancements in medical research, medical education and medical practice favoured the circulation of an expanding medical vocabulary and stimulated medical writing as a whole. A vast amount of reference works was produced for experts and non-experts alike: medical topics were common in social settings, in personal and communal letters, in specialised journals, in pamphlets and in magazines. All this unprecedented activity certainly contributed to the vernacularisation, and the dissemination of medicine in different kinds of works and different text types. The texts examined in the study are representative of their authors? effort to expand medical knowledge and to define medicine as an independent science based on strict observation, as well as to establish intelligibility within and outside the disciplinary discourse community. 606 $aHistory & Philosophy Of Science 606 $acultura 606 $aletteratura 606 $amedicina 606 $ascienza 606 $auniversità 606 $auniversità di milano 606 $aculture 606 $aliterature 606 $amedicine 606 $ascience 606 $aUniversity 606 $aUniversity of Milano 606 $alittérature 606 $amédecine 606 $aUniversité 606 $aUniversité de Milan 610 $aenglish 610 $amedicine 610 $alanguage 610 $acommunication 615 4$aHistory & Philosophy Of Science 615 4$acultura 615 4$aletteratura 615 4$amedicina 615 4$ascienza 615 4$auniversità 615 4$auniversità di milano 615 4$aculture 615 4$aliterature 615 4$amedicine 615 4$ascience 615 4$aUniversity 615 4$aUniversity of Milano 615 4$alittérature 615 4$amédecine 615 4$aUniversité 615 4$aUniversité de Milan 700 $aLonati$b Elisabetta$0905072 801 0$bFR-FrMaCLE 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910220010303321 996 $aCommunicating Medicine$92024296 997 $aUNINA