Medicine and narration in the eighteenth century

<br/>How did doctors argue in eighteenth-century medical pamphlet wars? How literary, or clinical, is Diderot’s depiction of mad nuns? What is at stake in the account of a cataract operation at the beginning of Jean-Paul’s novel <em>Hesperus</em>? In this pioneering volume, contrib...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vasset, S
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Voltaire Foundation 2017