Article ID: CBB011500463

Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century (2023)

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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.

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Includes Series Articles

Article Allan Ingram (2023) Medicating Georgia: Writing Doctors in the Old South. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 153-166). unapi

Article Michelle Faubert (2023) ‘The Doctor and Devil’: The Literary Writing of Slave-Ship Surgeons. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 135-151). unapi

Article Helen Williams (2023) Family Planning and the Long Eighteenth-Century Pocketbook. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 113-133). unapi

Article Susan Broomhall (2023) Writing Doctors, Body Work, and Body Texts in the French Revolution. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 93-112). unapi

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). unapi

Article Giulia Rovelli (2023) John Pechey (1654–1718) and the Popularization of Learned Medicine. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 59-73). unapi

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). unapi

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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Barry, Jonathan
Broomhall, Susan
Coquillard, Isabelle
Couzinet, Marie-Dominique
Day, Carolyn A.
Dubin, Lois C.
Journals
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Histoire des Sciences Médicales
Jewish History
Publishers
Bloomsbury Academic
Brill
Cornell University Press
John Donald
Rodopi
University of Rochester Press
Concepts
Medicine and society
Physicians; doctors
Medicine and literature
Medicine
Correspondence and corresponding
Professions and professionalization
People
Cheyne, George
Cullen, William
Frizzi, Benedetto
Galen
Jurin, James
Swift, Jonathan
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
15th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
England
Europe
France
Rome (Italy)
Italy
Institutions
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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