David e shuttleton megan j coyer (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. XI, 315 pp., 6 Figures Rodopi - 2014 - Amsterdam - New York Clio Medica: Perspectives in Medical Humanities 94 Blue hardcover with cover illustration: W. Poole, St Bernard's Well, Edinburgh,Scotland: in very good condition. No marks inside the book: as good as new A very good copy.…

XI, 315 pp. -TEXT IN ENGLISH- Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700 Large 8vo. Hardcover, no dust jacket, very fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorMegan J. Coyer is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Medical Humanities within the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. David E. Shuttleton is Reader in Literature and Medical Culture within the S.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The contributors take an informed historicist approach in examining the cultural, geographical, political, and other circumstances enabling the dissemination of distinctively Scottish medico-literary discourses. In tracing the international influence of Scottish medical ideas upon literary practice they ask critical questions concerning medical ethics, the limits of sympathy and the role of belles lettres in professional self-fashioning, and the development of medico-literary genres such as the medical short story, physician autobiography and medical biography. Some consider the role of medical ideas and culture in the careers, creative practice and reception of such canonical writers as Mark Akenside, Robert Burns, Robert Fergusson, Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth. By providing an important range of current scholarship, these essays represent an expansion and greater penetration of critical vision.…