33.3833, Books: Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820: Taavitsainen, Hiltunen, Smith, Suhr (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:17:54
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820: Taavitsainen, Hiltunen, Smith, Suhr (eds.)

 


Title: Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820 
Subtitle: Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/genre-english-medical-writing-15001820-sociocultural-contexts-production-and-use?format=HB 


Editor: Irma Taavitsainen
Editor: Turo Hiltunen
Editor: Jeremy J. Smith
Editor: Carla Suhr

Hardback: ISBN:  9781009100090 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781009100090 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781009100090 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel
perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles
by examining patterns of change and reception in genres, discourse, and lexis
in the period 1500-1820. Each chapter demonstrates in detail how changing
textual forms were closely tied to major multi-faceted social developments:
industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding trade, colonialization, and changes
in communication, all of which posed new demands on medical care. It then
shows how these developments were reflected in a range of medical discourses,
such as bills of mortality, medical advertisements, medical recipes, and
medical rhetoric, and provides an extensive body of case studies to highlight
how varieties of medical discourse have been targeted at different audiences
over time. It draws on a wide range of methodological frameworks and is
accompanied by numerous relevant illustrations, making it essential reading
for academic researchers and students across the human sciences.
 



List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements;
Preface; 1. Medical discourse and sociocultural contexts 1500–1820 Irma
Taavitsainen, Jeremy J. Smith, Turo Hiltunen and Carla Suhr; 2. John Arderne's
afterlife in manuscript and print Peter Murray Jones; 3. John Mirfield's
Regimen of Health Lori Jones; 4. Surgical handbooks translate into Low German
Chiara Benati; 5. Tracing the early modern John of Burgundy Alpo Honkapohja;
6. The plague in Southern Italy 1815–6 Alberto Tanturri; 7. On Excitability
Jeremy J. Smith; 8. Systems and centos: Some eighteenth-century dictionaries
Roderick McConchie; 9. Medical vocabulary in English Romantic literature
Jeremy J. Smith; 10. Foreign ingredients in Early Modern English recipes
Isabel de la Cruz-Cabanillas; 11. Walter Bailey's medical genres Irma
Taavitsainen; 12. London bills of mortality in the seventeenth century Maura
Ratia; 13. Advertising proprietary medicines in pamphlets Carla Suhr; 14.
Persuasion in Hungarian medical recipes Agnes Kuna; 15. Persuasion in Early
Modern English medical recipes Martti Mäkinen; 16. Richard III: Fact, Myth,
Fiction Anna Ilona Rajala and Timo Uotinen; 17. Images and paratexts Peter
Murray Jones; Preface to the image gallery Peter Murray Jones; Index.
 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics
                     Language Documentation


Written In: English  (eng)

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