Overview
- Brings together a diverse range of primary sources, interweaving its analysis of medical journals and fiction
- Interrogates how professional identities were mediated through different forms of writing
- Appeals to scholars of literature and medicine, the history of medicine, and the medical humanities as well as those interested in periodical studies and the history of professions
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PLSM)
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“The historical and literary medical humanities have developed an exciting critical momentum recently. This is thanks, in no small part, to in-depth approaches like those presented in Alison Moulds’ Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s-1910s. This is a timely study packed with information and critical reflections that will prove essential to those of us working in a similar area.” (Andrew Mangham, Professor of English Literature, University of Reading, UK)
“This excellent book evidences the powerful role of textual practices in shaping and performing a range of professional medical identities through the Victorian period and into the early twentieth century. It provides novel insights into how medical practitioners represented themselves and their practices to both the lay public and other practitioners via medical fiction and the medical press. Methodologically rigorous, highly original, and accessible to scholars across disciplines, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between medical and literary cultures in the nineteenth century.” (Megan Coyer, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow, UK)
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Book Title: Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s
Authors: Alison Moulds
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74345-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74344-4Published: 11 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74347-5Published: 12 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74345-1Published: 10 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6435
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 288
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, History of Science, History of Medicine