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Medicine-by-post : the changing voice of illness in eighteenth-century British consulation letters and literature /
Medicine-by-Post is an interdisciplinary study that will engage readers both in the history of medicine and the eighteenth-century novel. The correspondence from the large private practices of James Jurin, George Cheyne, and William Cullen opens a unique window on the doctor-patient relationship in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Colección: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 79. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Medicine-by-Post is an interdisciplinary study that will engage readers both in the history of medicine and the eighteenth-century novel. The correspondence from the large private practices of James Jurin, George Cheyne, and William Cullen opens a unique window on the doctor-patient relationship in England and Scotland from this period. The letters, many previously unpublished, reveal a changing rhetoric that mirrors contemporary shifts in medical theory and the patient's self-image. Medicine-by-Post uncovers the strategies of self-representation by both healers and patients, and reinterprets. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429480901 1429480904 9789401202350 9401202354 |
| ISSN: | 0045-7183 ; |