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Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600-1700 (Hardcover)
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Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600-1700 (Hardcover)
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How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn
Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that
scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead,
she argues that the whole enterprise of learned medicine was, in
large measure, facilitated by an intensely classical education that
included extensive training in rhetoric, and that this rhetorical
training is ultimately responsible for the achievement of
professional dominance. Bennett examines previously unexplored
connections among writers and genres as well as competing
livelihoods and classes. Engaging the histories of rhetoric,
medicine, literature, and culture throughout, she goes on to focus
specifically on the work of women who professed as well as
practiced medicine. Pointing to some of the ways women's writing
shapes realities of body, mind, and spirit as it negotiates social,
cultural, and professional ideologies of gender, this book offers
an important corrective to some long-held beliefs about women's
role in early modern discourse.
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