Liberating medicine, 1720-1835 /

A collection of sixteen essays that focus on meanings within eighteenth century medical narratives.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors:	Connolly, Tristanne J., 1970-, Clark, S. H. (Steven H.), 1957-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2009
Series:	Enlightenment world ; no. 10.
Subjects:	Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 18th century. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Medicine in literature. Enlightenment > Great Britain. Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Medicine > History > 18th century. Medicine in Literature History, 18th Century History, 19th Century Social Conditions > history United Kingdom
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Contributors
List of figures
Introduction
1. Liberation and consumption
2. Freedom, health, and hypochondria in Ignatius Sancho's letters
3. 'Uncle-Tommery'
4. 'Due preparations'
5. An organic body politic
6. Blake, liberation and medicine
7. Untying the web of Urizen
8. 'In sickness, despair, and in agony'
9. Disembodied souls and exemplary narratives
10. Idiotic associations
11. Authority and imposture
12. George Stubb's dissection of the horse and the expressiveness of 'facsimiles'
13. In submission
14. The surprising success of Dr Armstrong.

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