Medicine and narration in the eighteenth century [Texte imprimé] / edited by Sophie Vasset

Questions of narration in eighteenth-century medicine and literature / Sophie Vasset -- From medical case to narrative fiction : Diderot's La religieuse / Alexandre Wenger -- How to relate a medical case : the controversy about John Ranby's Narrative of the last illness of the Earl of Oxford (1745) / Sophie Vasset -- Writing to fellow physicians : literary genres and medical questions in Louis Odier's (1748-1817) correspondence / Philip Rieder -- "Not the meanest part of my works and experience" : Dr. George Cheyne's correspondence with Samuel Richardson / David Shuttleton -- Clementina's disease and polyphonic narration in Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison (1754) / Hélène Cachez and Sophie Vasset -- Melancholy vaporised : self-narration and counter-diagnosis in Rousseau's work / Rudy Le Menthéour -- Textually transmitted diseases : smallpox innoculation in French literary and medical works / Catriona Seth -- Smollett and the novel of irritability / Gavin Budge -- The healing power of words : medicine and literature in Bernard Mandeville's Treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick diseases / Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon -- Oculist narratives in late-eighteenth-century German : from cataract surgery to political conspiracy in Jean Paul's Hesperus / Helge Jordheim -- "Le poète raconte et ne discute pas" : poetic and medical codes in Jean-François Sacombe's obstetric epic, La Luciniade (1792-1815) / Hugues Marchal

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