Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern : Dissecting the Page / / edited by Hannah C. Tweed, Diane G. Scott.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
• HerausgeberIn: Tweed, Hannah C.; Scott, Diane G.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVII, 178 p. 23 illus.)

This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as the apparatus of graphic commu...

Table of Contents

• 1. Foreword: Jeremy J. Smith
• 2.Authority, Authenticity and Representation: An Introduction to Medical Paratexts: Hannah C. Tweed and Diane G. Scott
• 3. ‘[P]rophane fidlers’: Medical Paratexts and Indecent Readers in Early Modern England: Harry Newman
• 4. Touching Twins in the Texts and Medical Paratexts of Seventeenth-Century Midwifery Books: Louise Powell
• 5. Graphic Surgical Practice in the Handbills of Seventeenth-Century London Irregulars: Roberta Mullini
• 6. Profit and Paratexts; the Economics of Pharmaceutical Packaging in the Long Nineteenth Century: Laura Mainwaring
• 7. Remedies for Despair: Considering Mental Health in Late Medieval England: Natalie Calder
• 8. The Medical Paratexts as a Voice in the Patient’s Chamber: Speech and Print in Physick for the Poor (1657): Elspeth Jajdelska
• 9. Archives, Paratext and Life Writing in the First World War: Hannah C. Tweed
• 10. ‘Nonsense Rides Piggyback on Sensible Things’: The Past, Present, and Future of Graphology: Deborah Ellen Thorpe
• 11. Medical Marginalia in the early printed books of University of Glasgow Library: Robert MacLean.