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Myth and (Mis)Information

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

Helen Williams editor Allan Ingram editor Clark Lawlor editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:16th Apr '24

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This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the novel, to shed light on the mythologisation and transmission of medical (mis)information through literature and popular culture. It analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, as well as information and beliefs, about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of this period, from early eighteenth-century household remedies to the late nineteenth-century concerns with vaccination that are still relevant today.

ISBN: 9781526166821

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm

Weight: 610g

320 pages