Medicine-by-post : the changing voice of illness in eighteenth-century British consulation letters and literature / / Wayne Wild.
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...
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| Superior document: | The Wellcome series in the history of medicine |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 79. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Patients and their Doctors in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Etiquette, Eclecticism, and Ethics
- New Science Rhetoric in Medicine-by-Post: The Private Practice Correspondence of Dr James Jurin
- George Cheyne: A Very Public Private Doctor
- The Correspondence of Dr William Cullen: Scottish Enlightenment and New Directions in Medicine-by-Post
- Literary Applications of Medicine-by-Post
- Bibliography
- Index.