Myth and (Mis)Information
Ingram, Allan / Lawlor, Clark / Williams, Helen
This volume of essays analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, information, and beliefs about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It explores how English vernacular medical texts of the this period invite cross-comparisons with literary representations of health and medical practitioners, to enrich the picture of medicine in the p...