Myth and (mis)information: Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture

Published by Manchester University Press 2024

Myth and (mis)information

Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture

Edited by: Allan Ingram , Helen Williams and Clark Lawlor

https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526166845

Overview
Contents

About this book

This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation on medical practices and personages were spread during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and some of the reasons for this, from authorial self-interest to scientific ignorance.

Author / Editor information

Allan Ingram is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Northumbria
Clark Lawlor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Northumbria
Helen Williams is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Northumbria

Topics

Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Clark Lawlor and Helen Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 ‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’ Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714) Katherine Aske Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2 Dr John Arbuthnot’s literary treatment for false learning, pedantry and excess From physic to metaphysics John Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3 ‘The very women read it’ Medical self-fashioning, mythologies and (mis)information in George Cheyne MD’s medical writings Clark Lawlor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
4 Studying in solitude Demythologising the masculine medical monopoly with Jane Barker’s Galesia and Tobias Smollett’s Sagely Laurence Sullivan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5 ‘Take physic, Pomp’ Imagining dog doctors in eighteenth-century Britain Stephanie Howard-Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
6 ‘A man of common understanding’ Venereal disease, myth and reading as a protective practice in eighteenth-century Britain Declan Kavanagh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7 Sir Anthony Carlisle’s gothic (medical) intervention Carving the criminal body in The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey Bethany Brigham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
8 Mislabelling and the medical printer-publisher Demystifying the ephemera of Elizabeth Rane Cox (1765–1841) Helen Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
9 The uneasy relationship between traditional and orthodox medicine in the works of Elizabeth Gaskell Barbara Witucki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
10 Medical men recommend them Branded medicines and the myth of the medical moral economy c.1876–80 Laura Robson-Mainwaring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
11 Dissecting Venus Popular consumption of flap anatomies, 1890–1910 Jessica M. Dandona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
12 ‘You taught us that which you knew not to be the truth’ The anti-vaccination medical doctor in Henry Rider Haggard’s Doctor Therne (1898) Carlotta Fiammenghi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Afterword Allan Ingram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Illustrations
- Other: 23 illustrations
Keywords: medical history; disinformation; duplicity; scientific progress; quackery; literature; Pharmacy; popular culture; advertising; antivaccination

eBook

Published: June 25, 2024
ISBN: 9781526166845