Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820: Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use PDF
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GENRE IN ENGLISH MEDICAL WRITING, – Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use 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 –. Each chapter demonstrates in detail how changing textual forms were closely tied to major multifaceted social developments: industrialisation, urban- isation, expanding trade, colonialisation, and changes in communi- cation, all of which posed new demands on medical care. It then shows how these developments were reflected in a range of medical discourses,suchasbillsofmortality,medicaladvertisements,medical recipes,andmedicalrhetoric,andprovidesanextensivebodyofcase studies to highlight how varieties of medical discourse have been targeted at different audiences over time. It draws on a wide range of methodological frameworks and is accompanied by numerous relevant illustrations, making it essential reading for academic researchersand students acrossthe human sciences. is Professor Emerita of English Philology at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on historical prag- matics, corpus linguistics, genre and register variation, and the evo- lution ofscientific thought styles in medical writing. isUniversityLecturerinEnglishattheUniversityof Helsinki.Hehasauthoredseveralstudiesoncorpuspragmatics,corpus compilation,phraseology,andthelanguageofscienceandmedicine. . is Professor Emeritus of English Philology at Glasgow University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His interests include English historical linguistics, the history of Scots, and book history. Recent publications include Transforming Early English (). is University Lecturer in English at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on early modern English medical writing and early news discourse, which she examines with methods adoptedfromhistorical(corpus)pragmatics,genrestudies,andbook history. Published online by Cambridge University Press General editor Merja Kytö (Uppsala University) Editorial Board Bas Aarts (University College London), John Algeo (University of Georgia), SusanFitzmaurice (University ofSheffield), Christian Mair(University ofFreiburg), Charles F.Meyer (University ofMassachusetts) The aim of thisseries is toprovide aframeworkfor originalstudies ofEnglish, bothpresent-dayandpast.Allbooksarebasedsecurelyonempiricalresearch,and represent theoretical and descriptive contributions to our knowledge of national andinternationalvarietiesofEnglish,bothwrittenandspoken.Theseriescoversa broadrange oftopicsand approaches, including syntax, phonology, grammar, vocabulary, discourse, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, and isaimedat an international readership. 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SMITH UniversityofGlasgow CARLA SUHR UniversityofHelsinki Published online by Cambridge University Press ShaftesburyRoad,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India PenangRoad,#–/,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment, adepartmentoftheUniversityofCambridge. WesharetheUniversity’smissiontocontributetosocietythroughthepursuitofeducation, learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©CambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisions ofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytake placewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment. Firstpublished AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. 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Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents List of Figures page ix List of Image Gallery xi List of Tables xiii Notes on Contributors xiv Preface xvii Acknowledgements xviii Medical Discourse and Sociocultural Contexts – Irma Taavitsainen, Jeremy J. Smith, Turo Hiltunen, and Carla Suhr John Arderne’s Afterlife in Manuscript and Print Peter Murray Jones John Mirfield’s Gouernayl of Helþe Lori Jones Surgical Handbooks Translated into Low German Chiara Benati Tracing the Early Modern John of Burgundy Alpo Honkapohja The Plague in Southern Italy in – Alberto Tanturri On Excitability JeremyJ.Smith SystemsandCentos:SomeEighteenth-CenturyDictionaries RoderickMcConchie Medical Vocabulary in English Romantic Literature JeremyJ.Smith vii Published online by Cambridge University Press viii Contents Foreign Ingredients in Early and Late Modern English Recipes IsabelDe la Cruz-Cabanillas Walter Bailey’s (–) Medical Genres Irma Taavitsainen London Bills of Mortality of the Seventeenth Century MauraRatia Advertising Proprietary Medicines in Pamphlets Carla Suhr Persuasion in Hungarian Medical Recipes Ágnes Kuna Persuasion in Early Modern English Medical Recipes Martti Mäkinen Richard III: Fact, Myth, Fiction Anna Ilona Rajala and TimoUotinen Images and Paratexts Peter Murray Jones Preface to the Image Gallery Peter Murray Jones Image Gallery Index Published online by Cambridge University Press Figures . A true bill (). The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Firth. b.. Image attribution CC-BY-NC . page . The upper part of The Red-Crosse (). © British Library Board, General Reference Collection C..f..() . A section containing statistical analysis in LONDONS LORD HAVE MERCY UPON US (Anon. b). © British Library Board, General Reference Collection /C..f..() . The Mourning-Cross (). Guildhall Library, City of London . The General Bill of Mortallity (). Harvard Library. Public domain mark . Correlations between the layered structures of medication and medical communication (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) . Illustrations of the manuscripts KP and HP . The numerical distribution of persuasive phrases in the recipe collections . Values of F, F, and F in the recipe collections . The distribution of persuasive phrases in recipes included in recipe collections . The frequency of categories related to persuasion in Ars medica and in the recipe collections . Variety of persuasion: percentage of available persuasion indicators / recipe . Percentage of recipes with attitude, booster, and evidential markers ix Published online by Cambridge University Press
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