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Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 312 pages, height x width x depth: 234x156x19 mm, weight: 610 g, 23 black & white illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 16-Apr-2024
  • Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1526166828
  • ISBN-13: 9781526166821
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 312 pages, height x width x depth: 234x156x19 mm, weight: 610 g, 23 black & white illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 16-Apr-2024
  • Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1526166828
  • ISBN-13: 9781526166821
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This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation on medical practices and personages were spread during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and some of the reasons for this, from authorial self-interest to scientific ignorance.

This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the novel, to shed light on the mythologisation and transmission of medical (mis)information through literature and popular culture. It analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, as well as information and beliefs, about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of this period, from early eighteenth-century household remedies to the late nineteenth-century concerns with vaccination that are still relevant today.

Recenzijas

Studies of the connections between literature and medicine of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have increased in number over the past few years but rarely do we see such in-depth studies of the lexical and textual mechanics of this intersection. The stimulating essays of Myth and (mis)information remind us that important debates about truth, meaning, and representation go to the heart of the social and global history of medicine and that if we are to understand the present, we must first take an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to the languages of the past. Professor Andrew Mangham, University of Reading

Myth and (mis)information is a must read for anyone in search of new insights into the modern medical marketplace, the circulation of knowledge, reader-reception of medical texts, and the shaping of medical culture. In a post-COVID era, it skilfully historicises the current anxieties we have about health misinformation. The book encompasses multiple aspects of medical writings within a cultural and historical perspective: women publishers, herbalists and healers, overlooked texts by medical celebrities, dog doctors, illness narratives of poxed men, medical branding and advertising, medical controversies on epidemics, vaccination or anatomy. A rattling good read! Sophie Vasset, Institut de Recherches sur la Renaissance, l'Āge Classique et les Lumičres (IRCL), Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry -- .

Introduction Clark Lawlor and Helen Williams
1. To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules: Skincare in De Morbis
Cutaneis (1714) Katherine Aske
2. Dr John Arbuthnots Literary Treatment for False Learning, Pedantry,
and Excess: from Physic to Metaphysics John Baker
3. The very women read it: Medical Self-Fashioning, Mythologies and
(Mis)Information in George Cheyne M.D.s Medical Writings Clark Lawlor
4. Studying in Solitude: Demythologising the Masculine Medical Monopoly
with Jane Barkers Galesia and Tobias Smolletts Sagely Laurence Sullivan
5. Take physic, Pomp: Imagining Dog Doctors in Eighteenth-Century
Britain Stephanie Howard-Smith
6. A man of common understanding: Venereal Disease, Myth, and Reading
as a Protective Practice in Eighteenth-Century Britain Declan Kavanagh
7. Sir Anthony Carlisles Gothic (Medical) Intervention: Carving the
Criminal Body in The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey Bethany Brigham
8. Mislabelling and the Medical Printer-Publisher: Demystifying the
Ephemera of Elizabeth Rane Cox (1765-1841) Helen Williams
9. The Uneasy Relationship between Traditional and Orthodox Medicine in
the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell Barbara Witucki
10. Medical Men Recommend Them: Branded Medicines and the Myth of the
Medical Moral Economy c. 1876-1880 Laura Robson-Mainwaring
11. Dissecting Venus: Popular Consumption of Flap Anatomies, 18901910
Jessica Dandona
12. You taught us that which you knew not to be the truth: The
Anti-Vaccination Medical Doctor in Henry Rider Haggards Doctor Therne (1898)
Carlotta Fiammenghi
Afterword Allan Ingram
Index -- .
Allan Ingram is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Northumbria Clark Lawlor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Northumbria Helen Williams is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Northumbria -- .