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Liberating medicine, 1720-1835 /
A collection of sixteen essays that focus on meanings within eighteenth century medical narratives.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
London ; Brookfield, Vt. :
Pickering & Chatto,
2009.
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| Colección: | Enlightenment world ;
no. 10. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- List of figures
- Introduction
- 1. Liberation and consumption
- 2. Freedom, health, and hypochondria in Ignatius Sancho's letters
- 3. 'Uncle-Tommery'
- 4. 'Due preparations'
- 5. An organic body politic
- 6. Blake, liberation and medicine
- 7. Untying the web of Urizen
- 8. 'In sickness, despair, and in agony'
- 9. Disembodied souls and exemplary narratives
- 10. Idiotic associations
- 11. Authority and imposture
- 12. George Stubb's dissection of the horse and the expressiveness of 'facsimiles'
- 13. In submission
- 14. The surprising success of Dr Armstrong.