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oapen-20.500.12657-332832021-04-30T09:24:24Z Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 Coyer, Megan J. Shuttleton, David E. literature medical ethics literary culture scotland medicine 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 2020-04-01T14:38:32Z 2020-04-01T14:38:32Z 2014 book 512371 OCN: 897069513 0045-7183 9789401211734 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33283 eng Clio Medica: Perspectives in Medical Humanities Rodopi 10.26530/OAPEN_512371 10.26530/OAPEN_512371 292ae8c5-ab0a-4e1e-9df1-09bccf7289b0 781b04f1-9412-4171-a692-0e42497b20f3 9789401211734 94 315 Amsterdam/New York 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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