Medicine and Maladies

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Medicine and Maladies' explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing corporeal afflictions across the works of medical practitioners, surgeons, pharmacists, novelists, and artists. Tracing scientific discourse in literary narratives and signalling references to fiction in medical texts, the contributions to this interdisciplinary volume invite us to rethink the relationship between the humanities and the medical sciences.

subjects: French literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  Medical literature,  Medicine in literature,  French literature,  Congresses,  History and criticism,  History,  Literature and medicine,  Diseases in literature,  Sciences de la santé,  Documentation,  Actes de congrès,  Littérature et médecine,  Littérature française,  Histoire et critique