Ashleigh Blackwood (Author)
Helen Williams (Author)
This introduction to the special issue ‘Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century’ explores the various types of literary and visual creativity enacted by medical practitioners as they sought new ways of communicating and engaging with the public. Focusing on the shift from Latin to vernacular publishing in elite medical circles, we examine the proliferation of new opportunities open to physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, medical artists, midwives, and other women practitioners to express themselves. Novels, drama, poetry, artworks, almanacs, and letters, to name but a few creative products of the period, allowed new ideas and underrepresented voices to be heard for the first time, changing forever the way creative and empirical cultures would intertwine. Stemming from the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Writing Doctors: Medical Representation and Personality, ca. 1660–1832 (2018–22), this research has undoubtedly been impacted by the rapidly changing nature of public healthcare in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic that was still ongoing when this issue went to print. We value and celebrate connections made between the past and present that continue to assist us in understanding and caring for our bodies.
...MoreArticle Allan Ingram (2023) Medicating Georgia: Writing Doctors in the Old South. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 153-166).
Article Michelle Faubert (2023) ‘The Doctor and Devil’: The Literary Writing of Slave-Ship Surgeons. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 135-151).
Article Helen Williams (2023) Family Planning and the Long Eighteenth-Century Pocketbook. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 113-133).
Article Susan Broomhall (2023) Writing Doctors, Body Work, and Body Texts in the French Revolution. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 93-112).
Article Daisy Cunynghame (2023) Discussing Patients in Private and in Print: The Records of an Eighteenth-Century Dispensary. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 75-91).
Article Giulia Rovelli (2023) John Pechey (1654–1718) and the Popularization of Learned Medicine. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 59-73).
Article Heather Meek (2023) ‘Meanders of [the] Purple Flood’: Blood and Bloodletting in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Medicine. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 41-57).
Article Ashleigh Blackwood (2023) ‘Make the Medick Art my Whole Concern’: Poetry as Women's Literary Medical Practice. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 21-40).
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Caroline Petit;
(2018)
Galien de Pergame ou la rhétorique de la Providence: Médecine, littérature et pouvoir à Rome
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Article
Dominique Couzinet;
(2017)
Note sur les consilia juridiques et les consilia médicaux au XVIe siècle
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Chapter
Maria Malatesta;
(2021)
Fiducia e sfiducia: romanzieri, medici, pazienti e parenti raccontano
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Article
Michelle Faubert;
(2023)
‘The Doctor and Devil’: The Literary Writing of Slave-Ship Surgeons
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Article
Susan Broomhall;
(2023)
Writing Doctors, Body Work, and Body Texts in the French Revolution
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Book
Wild, Wayne;
(2006)
Medicine-by-Post: The Changing Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Consultation Letters and Literature
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Book
Annika Mann;
(2018)
Reading Contagion: The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print
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Article
Heather Meek;
(2023)
‘Meanders of [the] Purple Flood’: Blood and Bloodletting in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
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Book
Carolyn A. Day;
(2017)
Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease
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Article
Mackie, Erin;
(2013)
Swift and Mimetic Sickness
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Article
Alan Mackintosh;
(2016)
The Patent Medicines Industry in Late Georgian England: A Respectable Alternative to both Regular Medicine and Irregular Practice
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Article
Christopher M. Blakley;
(2021)
‘I have been obliged to Send Nassaw’: an enslaved healer’s medical labour and skill in eighteenth-century Virginia
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Article
Jonathan Barry;
(2019)
Educating Physicians in Seventeenth-Century England
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Article
Dubin, Lois C.;
(2012)
Medicine as Enlightenment Cure: Benedetto Frizzi, Physician to Eighteenth-Century Italian Jewish Society
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Article
Allan Ingram;
(2023)
Medicating Georgia: Writing Doctors in the Old South
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Book
Furdell, Elizabeth Lane;
(2001)
Royal Doctors, 1485-1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts
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Article
Louis-Courvoisier, Micheline;
(2012)
Aspirations éthiques et réalité de la pratique médicale à la fin de l'Ancien Régime
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Book
McCrae, Morrice;
(2007)
Physicians and Society: A History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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Book
Porter, Roy;
(2001)
Bodies Politic: Disease, Death, and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900
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Article
Coquillard, Isabelle;
(2008)
De l'Hôtel des Invalides à la Cour impériale. Itinéraires des Maloet père et fils: docteurs régents de la faculté de médecine de Paris au XVIIIème siècle
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