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Medical paratexts from medieval to modern :

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3319734261

(Number (ISBN

9783319734262

Erroneous ISBN

3319734253

Erroneous ISBN

9783319734255

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Medical paratexts from medieval to modern :

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[Book]

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dissecting the page /

First Statement of Responsibility

Hannah C. Tweed, Diane G. Scott, editors.

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Cham, Switzerland :

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Palgrave Macmillan,

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[2018]

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1 online resource (xvii, 178 pages)

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Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Authority, Authenticity and Reputation: An Introduction to Medical Paratexts; Case Study: Mary Toft; Dissecting the Page; Summary of Chapters; Part I: Production, Reception, and Use; Part II: Authority, Access, and Dissemination; Conclusion; Bibliography; Part I: Production, Reception, and Use; Chapter 2: '[P]rophane fidlers': Medical Paratexts and Indecent Readers in Early Modern England; Mikrokosmographia: Publication, Censorship and Readers' Marks; Apologia; or the Shame Game; Admonitio.

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Graphology, Its Controversies, and Allure, in the Twenty-First Century"The Careless Flourish": What Can We Learn About Individual Difference from Handwriting?; Goodbye to "Graphology"? Reconfiguring the Study of Handwriting Features and Individual Difference; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Medical Marginalia in the Early Printed Books of University of Glasgow Library; The Research Value of Marginalia1; Survey of Annotated Medical Texts in University of Glasgow Library; Incunabula2; Glasgow Syphilis Collection23; The Importance of Cataloguing Projects; Bibliography; Index.

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Or Do Not See OverleafBibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Chapter 3: Touching Twins in the Texts and Medical Paratexts of Seventeenth-Century Midwifery Books; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Graphic Surgical Practice in the Handbills of Seventeenth-Century London Irregulars; Introduction: Medical Handbills and Their Context; The Case Studies; The Handbills: Text and Visual Paratext; "J. Russel[l], Professor of Physick and Oculist"; The "Experienc'd, Most Famous, German, Turkish, and Imperial Physitian"; "Cornelius à Tilbourn, the Famous German Physitian and Operator"; Conclusions.

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This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as the apparatus of graphic communication: title pages, prefaces, illustrations, marginalia, and publishing details which act as mediators between text and reader. Discussing the development of medical paratexts across scribal, print and digital media, the collection spans the medieval period to the twenty-first century. Dissecting the Page is structured in two thematic sections, underpinned by a shared examination of ideas of medical and lay readership and a history of reader response. The first section focuses on the production, reception, and use of medical texts. The second section analyses the role and significance of authority, access, and dissemination in discussions of health, medicine, and illness, for both lay and medical readerships.

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Springer Nature

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com.springer.onix.9783319734262

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Medical paratexts from medieval to modern.

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9783319734255

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Medical Writing-- history.

HEALTH & FITNESS-- Holism.

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MEDICAL-- Holistic Medicine.

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Scott, Diane G.

Tweed, Hannah C.

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20200823104216.0

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