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Frances Burney and the Doctors - Patient Narratives Then and Now (Hardcover)
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Frances Burney and the Doctors - Patient Narratives Then and Now (Hardcover)
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Frances Burney is primarily known as a novelist and playwright, but
in recent years there has been an increased interest in the medical
writings found within her private letters and journals. John
Wiltshire advocates Burney as the unconscious pioneer of the modern
genre of pathography, or the illness narrative. Through her
dramatic accounts of distinct medical events, such as her own
infamous operation without anaesthetic, to those she witnessed,
including the 'madness' of George III and the inoculation of her
son against smallpox, Burney exposes the ethical issues and
conflicts between patients and doctors. Her accounts are linked to
a range of modern narratives in which similar events occur in the
changed conditions of the public hospital. The genre that Burney
initiated continues to make an important contribution to our
understanding of medical practice in the modern world.
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