Reimagining Illness : Women Writers and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Heather Meek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meek, Heather, author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society.

McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diseases in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Reimagining Illness analyzes works by eighteenth-century British women writers alongside contemporaneous medical texts to argue that the circulation of medical knowledge in this period was not determined only by scientific rationalism and male expertise but rather shaped in part by women's accounts of illness.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Meek, Heather Reimagining Illness

ISBN:

9780228019794