| Description |
1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations, portraits. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Wellcome series in the history of medicine
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Clio medica,
0045-7183 ;
79
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Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
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Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 79.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Patients and their Doctors in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Etiquette, Eclecticism, and Ethics; 2. New Science Rhetoric in Medicine-by-Post: The Private Practice Correspondence of Dr James Jurin; 3. George Cheyne: A Very Public Private Doctor; 4. The Correspondence of Dr William Cullen: Scottish Enlightenment and New Directions in Medicine-by-Post; 5. Literary Applications of Medicine-by-Post; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Medicine-by-Post is an interdisciplinary study that will engage readers both in the history of medicine and the eighteenth-century novel. The correspondence from the large private practices of James Jurin, George Cheyne, and William Cullen opens a unique window on the doctor-patient relationship in England and Scotland from this period. The letters, many previously unpublished, reveal a changing rhetoric that mirrors contemporary shifts in medical theory and the patient's self-image. Medicine-by-Post uncovers the strategies of self-representation by both healers and patients, and reinterprets. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cullen, William, 1710-1790. |
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Jurin, James, 1684-1750. |
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Cheyne, George, 1671-1743. |
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Physicians -- Great Britain -- History.
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Physicians. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Physician and patient -- Great Britain -- History.
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Physician and patient. |
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in literature. |
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Physicians -- history. |
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Physician-Patient Relations -- history. |
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Medicine in Literature -- history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wild, Wayne. Medicine-by-post. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006 9042018682 9789042018686 (OCoLC)78211963 |
| ISBN |
9781429480901 (electronic book) |
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1429480904 (electronic book) |
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9789401202350 |
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9401202354 |
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9042018682 |
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9789042018686 |
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