Literature and medicine in the nineteenth-century periodical press : Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, 1817-1858 /
The first major study of the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and medical culture. In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-C...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Medicine and Blackwoodian Romanticism
- Medical Discourse and Ideology in the Edinburgh Review
- The Tale of Terror and the 'Medico-Popular'
- 'Delta': The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon 4
- 'Delta': The Construction of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Surgeon
- Professionalisation and the Case of Samuel Warren's Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
- The Rise of Public Health in the Popular Periodical Press: The Political Medicine of W. P. Alison, Robert Gooch, and Robert Fergus
- Coda: Medical Humanism and Blackwood's Magazine at the Fin de Siècle