Title: 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)
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 The letters, many previously unpublished, reveal a changing rhetoric that mirrors contemporary shifts in medical theory and the patient's self-image."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Physician and patient, Medicine in literature, Physicians, great britain, Physicians, History, Correspondence as Topic, History, 18th Century, Physician-Patient Relations, Ziekte, Interpersoonlijke communicatie, Arzt, Patient, Brief