Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820
Taavitsainen, Irma / Hiltunen, Turo / Smith, Jeremy J. / Suhr, Carla![Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/386/38612467/CHSBZCOP0338612467.jpg)
Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in genres, discourse, and lexis in the period 1500-1820. Each chapter demonstrates in detail how changing textual forms were closely tied to major multi-faceted social developments: industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding trade, colonialization, an...