E-raamat: Myth and (mis)information: Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture

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 Arbuthnots 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 Barkers Galesia and Tobias Smolletts 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 Carlisles 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, 18901910
Jessica Dandona
12. You taught us that which you knew not to be the truth: The
Anti-Vaccination Medical Doctor in Henry Rider Haggards Doctor Therne (1898)
Carlotta Fiammenghi
Afterword Allan Ingram
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Allan Ingram is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Northumbria Clark Lawlor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Northumbria Helen Williams is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Northumbria -- .