Myth and (Mis)information - Constructing Medical Professions in Eighteenth And Nineteenth

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Allan Williams Ingram
• Assisted by: Allan Ingram (Editor), Ingram Allan (Editor), Clark Lawlor (Editor), Lawlor Clark (Editor), Helen Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9781526166821
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6682-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, History of Medicine, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary essays, Literature: history and criticism