Sophie Vasset Boeken

Exploring the intersection of medicine and literature in the eighteenth century, this volume examines how narrative strategies shaped the representation of doctors, patients, and illnesses. Contributors analyze various sources, including medical pamphlets and novels, highlighting rhetorical techniques used by physicians in their writings and correspondence. The book delves into how novelists integrated medical knowledge into their narratives, transforming models like case histories and narrative poetry. This interdisciplinary approach reveals the complex relationship between medical discourse and literary expression during this era.

Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth- century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the centrality of health in spa towns. -- .