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1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Studies in English Language Ser |
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Studies in English Language Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Image Gallery -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Medical Discourse and Sociocultural Contexts 1500-1820 -- 1.1 Research Questions -- 1.2 Definitions of Key Terms -- 1.3 Genre and Tradition -- 1.4 Multimodality, Interdisciplinarity, and 'Normal Science' -- 1.5 Organisation of the Volume -- References -- Chapter 2 John Arderne's Afterlife in Manuscript and Print -- 2.1 Arderne's Writings |
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2.2 Arderne Manuscripts after 1500 -- 2.3 Arderne in Print -- 2.4 Walter Hamond, Chirurgian, and the Lentaigne Manuscript, 1645 -- 2.5 Other Practical Users of Arderne in the Seventeenth Century -- 2.6 Collecting Arderne Manuscripts -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 John Mirfield's Gouernayl of Helþe -- 3.1 Methodological Approach -- 3.2 Regimens of Health: A Medieval Medical Genre -- 3.3 John Mirfield's Gouernayl of Helþe -- 3.3.1 Mirfield's Work in the English Regimen Corpus -- 3.3.2 Contents of Mirfield's Regimen -- 3.3.3 Caxton's Amendments |
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3.4 Wellcome Collection MS 674's Regiment of Health -- 3.4.1 Recalibrating the Non-naturals in Late Tudor England -- 3.4.2 The Wellcome Regimen: Protestant Undertones -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Surgical Handbooks Translated into Low German -- 4.1 Aims and Methods -- 4.2 The Low German Texts -- 4.2.1 Dat Boek der Wundenartzstedye. yn latin geheten Cirurgia -- 4.2.2 Dat velt bock in Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 1663 4to -- 4.3 Two Different Paths of Knowledge Dissemination: Translation versus Transformation (and Translation) of Medical Discourse |
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4.3.1 Medium of Transmission and Expected Readership -- 4.3.2 Structure and the Translator's Attitude towards His Work -- 4.4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 5 Tracing the Early Modern John of Burgundy -- 5.1 John of Burgundy: The Author and His Treatise -- 5.2 Manuscript Descriptions and Methodology -- 5.2.1 The Corpus: An Overview of Post-1500 Copies of JoBT -- 5.2.2 Early Modern Owners and Their Reasons for Owning a Copy of John of Burgundy -- 5.2.3 Evidence of Use -- 5.3 Changes in Discourse -- 5.3.1 Methodology -- 5.3.2 Framing the Treatise: From Astrology to Morality? |
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5.3.3 Sexual Terminology -- 5.3.4 Medical Discourse -- 5.4 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6 The Plague in Southern Italy in 1815-1816 -- 6.1 The Medical Debate on the Plague -- 6.2 The Therapies Tested in Noja -- 6.3 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7 On Excitability -- References -- Chapter 8 Systems and Centos: Some Eighteenth-Century Dictionaries -- 8.1 Ephraim Chambers on Dictionaries -- 8.2 Robert James -- 8.3 James Keir -- 8.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 Medical Vocabulary in English Romantic Literature -- 9.1 Romantic Medicine |
| Summary |
This multidisciplinary volume offers new insights into the development of genres of medical discourse in changing socio-cultural contexts |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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9.2 Panting in the Verse of Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hiltunen, Turo
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Smith, Jeremy J
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Suhr, Carla
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| ISBN |
9781009117883 |
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1009117882 |
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