Reimagining Illness: Women Writers and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Reimagining Illness: Women Writers and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Reimagining Illness analyzes works by eighteenth-century British women writers alongside contemporaneous medical texts to argue that the circulation of medical knowledge in this period was not determined only by scientific rationalism and male expertise but rather shaped in part by women's accounts of illness.

Heather Meek

• McGill-Queen's University Press
• 9780228019060
• 324 pages
• Hardback
• Canada
• Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900