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The Resource Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832, edited by Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton

Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832, edited by Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton

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Summary
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
Language
  • eng
  • eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 315 pages)
Note
Includes index
Contents
  • The Demise of the Preformed Embryo: Edinburgh, Leiden, and the Physician-Poet Mark Akenside’s Contribution to Re-Establishing Epigenetic Embryology
  • Robin Dix
  • Benjamin Rush, Edinburgh Medicine and the Rise of Physician Autobiography
  • Catherine Jones
  • The Construction of Robert Fergusson’s Illness and Death
  • Rhona Brown
  • ‘Groaning under the miseries of a diseased nervous System’: Robert Burns and Melancholy
  • Allan Beveridge
  • Phrenological Controversy and the Medical Imagination: ‘A Modern Pythagorean’ in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
  • Megan J. Coyer
  • Preliminary material
  • Blood and the Revenant in Walter Scott’s The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Katherine Inglis
  • Magic, Mind Control, and the Body Electric: “Materia Medica” in Sir Walter Scott’s Library at Abbotsford
  • Lindsay Levy
  • An Account of...William Cullen: John Thomson and the Making of a Medical Biography
  • David E. Shuttleton
  • Transatlantic Irritability: Brunonian sociology, America and mass culture in the nineteenth century
  • Gavin Budge
  • Index
  • Craig Franson
  • Editors Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832
  • Introduction: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832
  • Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton
  • ‘Nothing is so soon forgot as pain’: Reading Agony in Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments
  • Craig Franson
  • The Origins of a Modern Medical Ethics in Enlightenment Scotland: Cheyne, Gregory and Cullen as Practitioners of Sensibility
  • Wayne Wild
Isbn
9789401211734
Instance
Label
Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832
Title
Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832
Statement of responsibility
edited by Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
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
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Cataloging source
NL-LeKB
Dewey number
  • 610.8924
  • 610.9411
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Language note
Text in English
LC call number
R496
LC item number
.S36 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Coyer, Megan J
  • Shuttleton, David
Series statement
Clio medica: perspectives in medical humanities
Series volume
94
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Medicine
  • Literature and medicine
  • Literature and medicine
  • Medicine
  • Scotland
Label
Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832, edited by Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The Demise of the Preformed Embryo: Edinburgh, Leiden, and the Physician-Poet Mark Akenside’s Contribution to Re-Establishing Epigenetic Embryology
  • Robin Dix
  • Benjamin Rush, Edinburgh Medicine and the Rise of Physician Autobiography
  • Catherine Jones
  • The Construction of Robert Fergusson’s Illness and Death
  • Rhona Brown
  • ‘Groaning under the miseries of a diseased nervous System’: Robert Burns and Melancholy
  • Allan Beveridge
  • Phrenological Controversy and the Medical Imagination: ‘A Modern Pythagorean’ in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
  • Megan J. Coyer
  • Preliminary material
  • Blood and the Revenant in Walter Scott’s The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Katherine Inglis
  • Magic, Mind Control, and the Body Electric: “Materia Medica” in Sir Walter Scott’s Library at Abbotsford
  • Lindsay Levy
  • An Account of...William Cullen: John Thomson and the Making of a Medical Biography
  • David E. Shuttleton
  • Transatlantic Irritability: Brunonian sociology, America and mass culture in the nineteenth century
  • Gavin Budge
  • Index
  • Craig Franson
  • Editors Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832
  • Introduction: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832
  • Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton
  • ‘Nothing is so soon forgot as pain’: Reading Agony in Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments
  • Craig Franson
  • The Origins of a Modern Medical Ethics in Enlightenment Scotland: Cheyne, Gregory and Cullen as Practitioners of Sensibility
  • Wayne Wild
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 315 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9789401211734
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
10.1163/9789401211734
Other physical details
illustrations.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (EBL)1784186
  • (SSID)ssj0001399187
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  • (PQKBTitleCode)TC0001399187
  • (PQKBWorkID)11451424
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  • (OCoLC)1014476665
  • (OCoLC)893407656
  • (nllekb)BRILL9789401211734
  • (EXLCZ)993710000000307377
Label
Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832, edited by Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton
Publication
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The Demise of the Preformed Embryo: Edinburgh, Leiden, and the Physician-Poet Mark Akenside’s Contribution to Re-Establishing Epigenetic Embryology
  • Robin Dix
  • Benjamin Rush, Edinburgh Medicine and the Rise of Physician Autobiography
  • Catherine Jones
  • The Construction of Robert Fergusson’s Illness and Death
  • Rhona Brown
  • ‘Groaning under the miseries of a diseased nervous System’: Robert Burns and Melancholy
  • Allan Beveridge
  • Phrenological Controversy and the Medical Imagination: ‘A Modern Pythagorean’ in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
  • Megan J. Coyer
  • Preliminary material
  • Blood and the Revenant in Walter Scott’s The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Katherine Inglis
  • Magic, Mind Control, and the Body Electric: “Materia Medica” in Sir Walter Scott’s Library at Abbotsford
  • Lindsay Levy
  • An Account of...William Cullen: John Thomson and the Making of a Medical Biography
  • David E. Shuttleton
  • Transatlantic Irritability: Brunonian sociology, America and mass culture in the nineteenth century
  • Gavin Budge
  • Index
  • Craig Franson
  • Editors Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832
  • Introduction: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832
  • Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton
  • ‘Nothing is so soon forgot as pain’: Reading Agony in Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments
  • Craig Franson
  • The Origins of a Modern Medical Ethics in Enlightenment Scotland: Cheyne, Gregory and Cullen as Practitioners of Sensibility
  • Wayne Wild
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 315 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9789401211734
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
10.1163/9789401211734
Other physical details
illustrations.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (EBL)1784186
  • (SSID)ssj0001399187
  • (PQKBManifestationID)12538010
  • (PQKBTitleCode)TC0001399187
  • (PQKBWorkID)11451424
  • (PQKB)11031241
  • (MiAaPQ)EBC1784186
  • (OCoLC)1014476665
  • (OCoLC)893407656
  • (nllekb)BRILL9789401211734
  • (EXLCZ)993710000000307377

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