| Description |
1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Series |
The Wellcome series in the history of medicine |
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Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 79 |
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Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
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Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 79.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Patients and their Doctors in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Etiquette, Eclecticism, and Ethics; 2. New Science Rhetoric in Medicine-by-Post: The Private Practice Correspondence of Dr James Jurin; 3. George Cheyne: A Very Public Private Doctor; 4. The Correspondence of Dr William Cullen: Scottish Enlightenment and New Directions in Medicine-by-Post; 5. Literary Applications of Medicine-by-Post; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 England and Scotland from this period. The letters, many previously unpublished, reveal a changing rhetoric that mirrors contemporary shifts in medical theory and the patient's self-image. Medicine-by-Post uncovers the strategies of self-representation by both healers and patients, and reinterprets |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Cullen, William 1710-1790 gnd |
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Jurin, James 1684-1750 gnd |
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Cheyne, George 1671-1743 gnd |
| Subject |
Physicians -- Great Britain -- History
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Physician and patient -- Great Britain -- History
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Medicine in literature.
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Physicians -- history
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Physician-Patient Relations -- history
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Medicine in Literature -- history
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Medicine in Literature
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Medicine in literature
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Physician and patient
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Physicians
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Arzt
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Brief
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Patient
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429480901 |
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1429480904 |
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9789401202350 |
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9401202354 |
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