LEADER 04097nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910451834603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-012-0235-4 010 $a1-4294-8090-4 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401202350 035 $a(CKB)1000000000475289 035 $a(EBL)556704 035 $a(OCoLC)714567373 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000200676 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12009853 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000200676 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10219942 035 $a(PQKB)10771870 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556704 035 $a(OCoLC)165100483$z(OCoLC)253776394$z(OCoLC)714567373$z(OCoLC)764536416$z(OCoLC)768067220$z(OCoLC)770842808 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401202350 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556704 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380472 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000475289 100 $a20070116d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMedicine-by-post$b[electronic resource] $ethe changing voice of illness in eighteenth-century British consulation letters and literature /$fWayne Wild 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 225 1 $aThe Wellcome series in the history of medicine 225 1 $aClio medica,$x0045-7183 ;$v79 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-1868-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-274) and index. 327 $aPreliminary 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. 330 $aMedicine-by-Post is an interdisciplinary study that will engage readers both in the history of medicine and the eighteenth-century novel. The correspondence from the large private practices of James Jurin, George Cheyne, and William Cullen opens a unique window on the doctor?patient relationship in England and Scotland from this period. The letters, many previously unpublished, reveal a changing rhetoric that mirrors contemporary shifts in medical theory and the patient?s self-image. Medicine-by-Post uncovers the strategies of self-representation by both healers and patients, and reinterprets the meaning of illness and the medical encounter in eighteenth-century literature in the light of true-life experience. The tension between the patient?s personal needs and the doctor?s professional will presents a ready metaphor for the novelist, depicting the social expectations placed upon the individual as well as a measure of one?s moral character in the context of illness. The correspondence also demonstrates the subtle changes in rhetoric regarding ?sensibility?, reflecting evolving medical speculation. It also describes the differing perspectives of the female body between doctors and novelists and the women patients themselves. Yet much of this correspondence shows an unexpected blend of metaphor with a realistic and utilitarian approach to therapeutic advice and the patient?s own compliance. In these letters we discover some genuinely sympathetic doctors. 410 0$aWellcome series in the history of medicine. 410 0$aClio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;$v79. 606 $aMedicine$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aPhysicians$zGreat Britain$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory. 615 0$aPhysicians$xHistory. 676 $a610.94109033 700 $aWild$b Wayne$0899337 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451834603321 996 $aMedicine-by-post$92009225 997 $aUNINA