Phrenological controversy and the medical imagination 'a modern Pythagorean' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
The periodical press in the early nineteenth century was a site of dynamic exchange between men of science and men of letters, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine was a particularly rich site of expression for medical ideas. This chapter explores the symbiotic relationship between the Blackwoodi...
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi
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- AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors1. "Introduction: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832"Megan J. Coyer & David E. Shuttleton2. "'Nothing is so soon forgot as pain': Reading Agony in The Theory of Moral Sentiments"Craig Franson3. "The Origins of a Modern Medical Ethics in Enlightenment Scotland: Cheyne, Gregory and Cullen as Practitioners of Sensibility"Wayne Wild4. "The Demise of the Preformed Embryo: Edinburgh, Leiden, and the Physician-Poet Mark Akenside's Contribution to the Re-Establishing of Epigenetic Embryology"Robin Dix5. "Benjamin Rush, Edinburgh Medicine and the Rise of Physician Autobiography"Catherine Jones6. "The Construction of Robert Fergusson's Illness and Death"Rhona Brown7. "'Groaning under the miseries of a diseased nervous System': Robert Burns and Melancholy"Allan Beveridge8. "Phrenological Controversy and the Medical Imagination: 'A Modern Pythagorean' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine"Megan J. Coyer9. "Blood and the Revenant in Walter Scott's The Fair Maid of Perth"Katherine Inglis10. "Magic, Mind Control, and the Body Electric: "Materia Medica" in Sir Walter Scott's Library at Abbotsford"Lindsay Levy11. "An Account of ... William Cullen: John Thomson and the Making of a Medical Biography"David E. Shuttleton12. "Transatlantic Irritability: Brunonian Sociology, America and Mass Culture in the Nineteenth Century"Gavin BudgeIndex.
