Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern : Dissecting the Page

Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern Dissecting the Page

This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as the apparatus of graphic commu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Tweed, Hannah C. editor (editor), Scott, Diane G. editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2018.
Edición:1st ed. 2018.
Colección:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
Materias:
British literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Literature, Modern.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
History.
British and Irish Literature.
Medieval Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
History of Science.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Foreword: Jeremy J. Smith
  • 2.Authority, Authenticity and Representation: An Introduction to Medical Paratexts: Hannah C. Tweed and Diane G. Scott
  • 3. ‘[P]rophane fidlers’: Medical Paratexts and Indecent Readers in Early Modern England: Harry Newman
  • 4. Touching Twins in the Texts and Medical Paratexts of Seventeenth-Century Midwifery Books: Louise Powell
  • 5. Graphic Surgical Practice in the Handbills of Seventeenth-Century London Irregulars: Roberta Mullini
  • 6. Profit and Paratexts; the Economics of Pharmaceutical Packaging in the Long Nineteenth Century: Laura Mainwaring
  • 7. Remedies for Despair: Considering Mental Health in Late Medieval England: Natalie Calder
  • 8. The Medical Paratexts as a Voice in the Patient’s Chamber: Speech and Print in Physick for the Poor (1657): Elspeth Jajdelska
  • 9. Archives, Paratext and Life Writing in the First World War: Hannah C. Tweed
  • 10. ‘Nonsense Rides Piggyback on Sensible Things’: The Past, Present, and Future of Graphology: Deborah Ellen Thorpe
  • 11. Medical Marginalia in the early printed books of University of Glasgow Library: Robert MacLean.

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