David Gentilcore

List of John Benjamins publications in which David Gentilcore is involved.

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Gentilcore, David 2019 Chapter 4. Regimens and their readers in eighteenth-century England Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 75–88 | Chapter

This chapter focuses on eighteenth-century developments in regimens, a well-established genre of medical writing dedicated to preventing illnesses by advocating temperance in diet and other non-naturals. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century challenges to Galenic medicine in the form of chemical and… read more