Reimagining illness: women writers and medicine in eighteenth-century britain
Auteur :
Meek, Heather
Éditeur :
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN :
9780228019060
Date de publication :
15 nov. 2023
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Canada
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.