Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture by Ingram, Allan

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526195425)

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Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture by Ingram, Allan

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture

$36.95
Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture by Ingram, Allan

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture

$36.95
Format: Paperback
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This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the novel, to shed light on the mythologisation and transmission of medical (mis)information through literature and popular culture. It analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, as well as information and beliefs, about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of this period, from early eighteenth-century household remedies to the late nineteenth-century concerns with vaccination that are still relevant today.

Author: Allan Ingram
ISBN-10: 1526195429
ISBN-13: 9781526195425
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/20/2026
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
By Allan Ingram
By Allan Ingram
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Allan Ingram is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Northumbria
Clark Lawlor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Northumbria
Helen Williams is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Northumbria

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