Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern Dissecting the Page /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tweed, Hannah C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Scott, Diane G. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: British literature.; Literature, Medieval.; Literature, Modern.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; History.; British and Irish Literature.; Medieval Literature.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; History of Science.

This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as the apparatus of gra...