Coyer, Megan J. (Editor)
Shuttleton, David (Editor)
Rodopi
Publication date: 2014
Language: English
Physical Details: xi + 315 pp.; ill.
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.
...MoreReview Erin Wilson (2015) Review of "Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832". Social History of Medicine (pp. 931-933).
Review Lawlor, Clark (2015) Review of "Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 603-605).
Chapter Gavin Budge (2014) Transatlantic Irritability: Brunonian Sociology, America and Mass Culture in the Nineteenth Century. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 267-292).
Chapter Wayne Wild (2014) The Origins of a Modern Medical Ethics in Enlightenment Scotland: Cheyne, Gregory and Cullen as Practitioners of Sensibility. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 48-73).
Chapter Robin Dix (2014) The Demise of the Preformed Embryo: Edinburgh, Leiden, and the Physician-Poet Mark Akenside’s Contribution to the Re-Establishing of Epigenetic Embryology. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 74-96).
Chapter Rhona Brown (2014) The Construction of Robert Fergusson’s Illness and Death. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 123-144).
Chapter Megan J. Coyer (2014) Phrenological Controversy and the Medical Imagination: ‘A Modern Pythagorean’ in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 172-195).
Chapter Craig Franson (2014) 'Nothing is so soon forgot as pain': Reading Agony in the Theory of Moral Sentiments. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 23-47).
Chapter Lindsay Levy (2014) Magic, Mind Control, and the Body Electric: “Materia Medica” in Sir Walter Scott’s Library at Abbotsford. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 216-239).
Chapter Megan J. Coyer; David E. Shuttleton (2014) Introduction: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 1-22).
Chapter Allan Beveridge (2014) Groaning Under the Miseries of a Diseased Nervous System’: Robert Burns and Melancholy. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 145-171).
Chapter Katherine Inglis (2014) Blood and the Revenant in Walter Scott’s The Fair Maid of Perth. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 196-215).
Chapter Catherine Jones (2014) Benjamin Rush, Edinburgh Medicine and the Rise of Physician Autobiography. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 97-122).
Chapter David E. Shuttleton (2014) An Account of... William Cullen: John Thomson and the Making of a Medical Biography. In: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726--1832 (pp. 240-266).
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