Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500-1820

Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use
Herausgeber: Suhr, Carla; Hiltunen, Turo; Smith, Jeremy J.; Taavitsainen, Irma

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Produktbeschreibung

With contributions from a global team of scholars, this fascinating book engages with numerous disciplinary perspectives to offer new insights on medical discourse in various traditions and genres, both in England and across Europe. Among other current 're-imaginings' of philology, it will interest researchers from across the human sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009108683
• ISBN-10: 1009108689
• Artikelnr.: 72489252

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Medical discourse and sociocultural contexts 1500-1820 Irma Taavitsainen, Jeremy J. Smith, Turo Hiltunen and Carla Suhr
2. John Arderne's afterlife in manuscript and print Peter Murray Jones
3. John Mirfield's Regimen of Health Lori Jones
4. Surgical handbooks translate into Low German Chiara Benati
5. Tracing the early modern John of Burgundy Alpo Honkapohja
6. The plague in Southern Italy 1815-6 Alberto Tanturri
7. On Excitability Jeremy J. Smith
8. Systems and centos: Some eighteenth-century dictionaries Roderick McConchie
9. Medical vocabulary in English Romantic literature Jeremy J. Smith
10. Foreign ingredients in Early Modern English recipes Isabel de la Cruz-Cabanillas
11. Walter Bailey's medical genres Irma Taavitsainen
12. London bills of mortality in the seventeenth century Maura Ratia
13. Advertising proprietary medicines in pamphlets Carla Suhr
14. Persuasion in Hungarian medical recipes Agnes Kuna
15. Persuasion in Early Modern English medical recipes Martti Mäkinen
16. Richard III: Fact, Myth, Fiction Anna Ilona Rajala and Timo Uotinen
17. Images and paratexts Peter Murray Jones
Preface to the image gallery Peter Murray Jones
Index.