Myth and (Mis)Information

Myth and (Mis)Information

Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture

Ingram, Allan; Williams, Helen; Lawlor, Clark

Manchester University Press

04/2024

320

Dura

Inglês

9781526166821

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction - Clark Lawlor and Helen Williams
1. "To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules": Skincare in De Morbis Cutaneis (1714) - Katherine Aske
2. Dr John Arbuthnot's Literary Treatment for False Learning, Pedantry, and Excess: from Physic to Metaphysics - John Baker
3. "The very women read it": Medical Self-Fashioning, Mythologies and (Mis)Information in George Cheyne M.D.'s Medical Writings - Clark Lawlor
4. Studying in Solitude: Demythologising the Masculine Medical Monopoly with Jane Barker's Galesia and Tobias Smollett's Sagely - Laurence Sullivan
5. "Take physic, Pomp": Imagining Dog Doctors in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Stephanie Howard-Smith
6. "A man of common understanding": Venereal Disease, Myth, and Reading as a Protective Practice in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Declan Kavanagh
7. Sir Anthony Carlisle's Gothic (Medical) Intervention: Carving the Criminal Body in The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey - Bethany Brigham
8. Mislabelling and the Medical Printer-Publisher: Demystifying the Ephemera of Elizabeth Rane Cox (1765-1841) - Helen Williams
9. The Uneasy Relationship between Traditional and Orthodox Medicine in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell - Barbara Witucki
10. Medical Men Recommend Them: Branded Medicines and the Myth of the Medical Moral Economy c. 1876-1880 - Laura Robson-Mainwaring
11. Dissecting Venus: Popular Consumption of Flap Anatomies, 1890-1910 - Jessica Dandona
12. "You taught us that which you knew not to be the truth": The Anti-Vaccination Medical Doctor in Henry Rider Haggard's Doctor Therne (1898) - Carlotta Fiammenghi
Afterword - Allan Ingram
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medical history; disinformation; duplicity; scientific progress; quackery; literature; Pharmacy; popular culture; advertising; antivaccination