Part I.Tracing discursive changes

Chapter 2.“A geography of names”: A genre analysis of nationality-driven names for venereal disease in seventeenth-century England23

Tony McEnery

Helen Baker

Chapter 3.Medical topics and style from 1500 to 201849

Gerold Schneider

Chapter 4.Medical discourse in Late Modern English: Insights from the Royal Society Corpus79

Katrin Menzel

Chapter 5.Survival or death: Mine/my and thine/thy variation in Early Modern English medical writing105

Terry Walker

Merja Kytö

Chapter 6.Towards a local grammar of stance expression in Late Modern English medical writing127

Turo Hiltunen

Chapter 7.“Die Blumenzeit der Frau”: A corpus-based study of the development of medical references to menstruation in historical texts on herbology153

Gohar Schnelle

Carolin Odebrecht

Anke Lüdeling

Laura Perlitz

Catharina Fisher

Part II.Changing functions, roles and representations

Chapter 8.Language, labour and ideology: Constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (ca. 1500–1800)179

Jason Whitt

Chapter 9.Unhappy patients and eminent physicians: The representation of patients and physicians in Late Modern English medical writing203

Anu Lehto

Chapter 10.The discursive dynamics of personal experience narratives and medical advice in 18th-century British consultation letters: The case of Dr. William Cullen229

Anna Franca Plastina

Chapter 11.Communicating authority: Self-mentions in Early Modern English medical narratives (1500–1700)251

Karoliina Ollikainen

Chapter 12.How old is old? The discourse of ‘good’ ageing in 19th century popular medical sources273

Kim Grego

Chapter 13.The popularization of learned medicine in late 17th century England: Accommodating translation strategies and textual aspects297

Giulia Rovelli

Index317

Table of contents

Part I.Tracing discursive changes

Part II.Changing functions, roles and representations