Medicine-by-Post: The Changing Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Consultation Letters and Literature (Clio Medica 79) (Clio Medica: the Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Published: November 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789042018686
Subjects: History of medicine; c 1700 to c 1800; Medical; British Isles; History / General; History; Modern - 18th Century
Description: "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 The letters, many previously unpublished, reveal a changing rhetoric that mirrors contemporary shifts in medical theory and the patient's self-image."--BOOK JACKET.