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How did doctors argue in eighteenth-century medical pamphlet wars?
How literary, or clinical, is Diderot's depiction of mad nuns? What
is at stake in the account of a cataract operation at the beginning
of Jean-Paul's novel Hesperus? In this pioneering volume,
contributors extend current research at the intersection of
medicine and literature by examining the overlapping narrative
strategies in the writings of both novelists and doctors. Focusing
on a wide variety of sources, an interdisciplinary team of
researchers explores the nature and function of narration as an
underlying principle of such writing. From a reading of
correspondence between doctors as a means of continuing
professional education, to the use of inoculation as a plotting
device, or an examination of Diderot's physiological approach to
mental illness in La Religieuse, contributors highlight: how
doctors exploited rhetorical techniques in both clinical writing
and correspondence with patients. how novelists incorporated
medical knowledge into their narratives. how models such as
case-histories or narrative poetry were adopted and transformed in
both fictional and actual medical writing. how these narrative
strategies shaped the way in which doctors, patients and illnesses
were represented and perceived in the eighteenth century.
Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the
eighteenth century. "The environment" may not have existed as a
notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously
shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming
commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This
book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling
processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature,
and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a
thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption,
the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light
where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn
to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific
breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans.
Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the
eighteenth century. "The environment" may not have existed as a
notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously
shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming
commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This
book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling
processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature,
and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a
thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption,
the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light
where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn
to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific
breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans.
This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the
supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by
focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed
writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These
inner organs and the digestive process acted as counterpoints to
politeness and other modes of refined sociability, drawing
attention to the deeper workings of the self. Moving beyond recent
studies of luxury and conspicuous consumption, where dysfunctional
bowels have been represented as a symptom of excess, this book
seeks to explore other manifestations of the visceral and to
explain how the bowels played a crucial part in eighteenth-century
emotions and perceptions of the self. The collection offers an
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on entrails and
digestion by addressing urban history, visual studies, literature,
medical history, religious history, and material culture in
England, France, and Germany. -- .
Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in
eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent
contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health
in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of
treatment and the social networks of care woven into spa towns. The
book explores the great variety of medical and literary discourses
on the numerous British spas in the long eighteenth century and
offers a rare look at spas beyond Bath. Following the thread of
'murkiness', it explores the underwater culture of spas, from the
gender fluidity of users to the local and national political
dimensions, as well as the financial risks taken by gamblers and
investors. It thus brings a fresh look at mineral waters and a
pinch of salt to health-related discourses. -- .
This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the
supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by
focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed
writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These
inner organs and the digestive process acted as counterpoints to
politeness and other modes of refined sociability, drawing
attention to the deeper workings of the self. Moving beyond recent
studies of luxury and conspicuous consumption, where dysfunctional
bowels have been represented as a symptom of excess, this book
seeks to explore other manifestations of the visceral and to
explain how the bowels played a crucial part in eighteenth-century
emotions and perceptions of the self. The collection offers an
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on entrails and
digestion by addressing urban history, visual studies, literature,
medical history, religious history, and material culture in
England, France and Germany. -- .
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