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oapen-20.500.12657-299142021-11-12T15:58:09Z Chapter 8 Phrenological Controversy and the Medical Imagination: 'A Modern Pythagorean' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine E. Shuttleton, David J. Coyer, Megan literature medical ethics literary culture scotland medicine literature medical ethics literary culture scotland medicine Anatomy Blackwood's Magazine Guillotine Metempsychosis Phrenology Physiology Pythagoras bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The contributors take an informed historicist approach in examining the cultural, geographical, political, and other circumstances enabling the dissemination of distinctively Scottish medico-literary discourses. In tracing the international influence of Scottish medical ideas upon literary practice they ask critical questions concerning medical ethics, the limits of sympathy and the role of belles lettres in professional self-fashioning, and the development of medico-literary genres such as the medical short story, physician autobiography and medical biography. Some consider the role of medical ideas and culture in the careers, creative practice and reception of such canonical writers as Mark Akenside, Robert Burns, Robert Fergusson, Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth. By providing an important range of current scholarship, these essays represent an expansion and greater penetration of critical vision. 2014-12-01 00:00:00 2020-04-01T12:40:09Z 2020-04-01T12:40:09Z 2014 chapter 1000040 OCN: 1076784452 0045-7183 9789401211734 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29914 eng Clio Medica: Perspectives in Medical Humanities application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 1000040.pdf http://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=CLIO+94 Rodopi Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 10.26530/oapen_512371 10.26530/oapen_512371 292ae8c5-ab0a-4e1e-9df1-09bccf7289b0 d6c8cf99-159c-4720-bb5f-bbd1e96c8c2c d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9789401211734 Wellcome 94 315 Amsterdam/New York 8 097597 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The contributors take an informed historicist approach in examining the cultural, geographical, political, and other circumstances enabling the dissemination of distinctively Scottish medico-literary discourses. In tracing the international influence of Scottish medical ideas upon literary practice they ask critical questions concerning medical ethics, the limits of sympathy and the role of belles lettres in professional self-fashioning, and the development of medico-literary genres such as the medical short story, physician autobiography and medical biography. Some consider the role of medical ideas and culture in the careers, creative practice and reception of such canonical writers as Mark Akenside, Robert Burns, Robert Fergusson, Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth. By providing an important range of current scholarship, these essays represent an expansion and greater penetration of critical vision.
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