Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500-1820: Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use

ISBN-13: 9781009100090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Irma Taavitsainen; Turo Hiltunen; Jeremy J. Smith

Opis

This multidisciplinary volume offers new insights into the development of genres of medical discourse in changing socio-cultural contexts.

Spis treści

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.