The Poetics of Palliation argues that Romanticism developed richer literary therapies than its contemporary reception remembers. By reading Romantic writers against Georgian medical ethics, Poetics recovers their models of literature as comfort and sustenance, challenging a health humanities tradition that sees literary therapy primarily as cure.
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Published September, 2021
By Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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By Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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With the dawn of modern medicine there emerged a complex range of languages and methodologies for portraying the male body as prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, this collection explores how medicine has interacted with key moments in literature and culture.
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The first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of a national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. Dwyer charts how this national goal was marked by conflict and tragedy and placed Ireland on the European frontline of the bacteriological revolution.
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This book explores the history of medical education and student life in Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, with particular focus on issues of gender and class.
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A synoptic edition of the English version of John Arderon's De judiciis urinarum containing the commentary on Giles of Corbeil's Carmen de urinis as preserved in Glasgow University Library, MS Hunter 328, from the early 15th century, and Manchester University Library, MS Rylands Eng.
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£80.00
This study explores the poet John Keats' manuscript medical Notebook from his time at Guy's Hospital (October 1815 - March 1816), reconstructing and recovering the intriguing and mutually enriching connections between Keats' two careers of medicine and poetry.
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£85.00
The Poetics of Palliation argues that Romanticism developed richer literary therapies than its contemporary reception remembers. By reading Romantic writers against Georgian medical ethics, Poetics recovers their models of literature as comfort and sustenance, challenging a health humanities tradition that sees literary therapy primarily as cure.
Hardback
£90.00
Published May, 2018
By Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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in-stock
By Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Rating:
in-stock
With the dawn of modern medicine there emerged a complex range of languages and methodologies for portraying the male body as prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, this collection explores how medicine has interacted with key moments in literature and culture.
Hardback
£90.00
The first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of a national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. Dwyer charts how this national goal was marked by conflict and tragedy and placed Ireland on the European frontline of the bacteriological revolution.
Hardback
£85.00