Scottish medicine and literary culture, 1726-1832 / edited by Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

E. Shuttleton, David

Contributor:

Coyer, Megan J.

Shuttleton, David.

Series:

Clio Medica 94.

Clio medica: perspectives in medical humanities ; 94

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Scotland--History.

Medicine.

Literature and medicine--Scotland--History.

Literature and medicine.

Scotland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/New York Rodopi 2014

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2014.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832

Introduction: Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 / Megan J. Coyer and David E. Shuttleton

‘Nothing is so soon forgot as pain’: Reading Agony in Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments / Craig Franson

The Origins of a Modern Medical Ethics in Enlightenment Scotland: Cheyne, Gregory and Cullen as Practitioners of Sensibility / Wayne Wild

The Demise of the Preformed Embryo: Edinburgh, Leiden, and the Physician-Poet Mark Akenside’s Contribution to Re-Establishing Epigenetic Embryology / Robin Dix

Benjamin Rush, Edinburgh Medicine and the Rise of Physician Autobiography / Catherine Jones

The Construction of Robert Fergusson’s Illness and Death / Rhona Brown

‘Groaning under the miseries of a diseased nervous System’: Robert Burns and Melancholy / Allan Beveridge

Phrenological Controversy and the Medical Imagination: ‘A Modern Pythagorean’ in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine / Megan J. Coyer

Blood and the Revenant in Walter Scott’s The Fair Maid of Perth / Katherine Inglis

Magic, Mind Control, and the Body Electric: “Materia Medica” in Sir Walter Scott’s Library at Abbotsford / Lindsay Levy

An Account of...William Cullen: John Thomson and the Making of a Medical Biography / David E. Shuttleton

Transatlantic Irritability: Brunonian sociology, America and mass culture in the nineteenth century / Gavin Budge

Index / Craig Franson.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY

ISBN:

9789401211734

9401211736

OCLC:

1014476665

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401211734 DOI