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Myth and (mis)information
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- 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
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781526166821
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press, (16 April 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 312
- Weight
- 610 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 19.05 mm
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