In:Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen
[Not in series 221] 2019
► pp. v–viii
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Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Conventions used in this book
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Chapter 1.Towards new knowledge: The corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts
Turo Hiltunen
Irma Taavitsainen
Chapter 2.Sociohistorical and cultural context of Late Modern English Medical Texts
Irma Taavitsainen
Peter Murray Jones
Turo Hiltunen
Chapter 3.Topics of medical writing in the eighteenth century
Irma Taavitsainen
Gerold Schneider
Peter Murray Jones
Chapter 4.Regimens and their readers in eighteenth-century England
David Gentilcore
Chapter 5.Medical case reports in Late Modern English
Anu Lehto
Irma Taavitsainen
Chapter 6.Household medicine and recipe culture in eighteenth-century Britain
Alun Withey
Chapter 7.Polite society language practices: Letters to the Editor on medical issues in The Gentleman’s Magazine 1731–1800
Irma Taavitsainen
Chapter 8.Changing portrayals of medicine and patients in eighteenth-century medical writing: Lexical bundles in public health, methods and case studies
Anu Lehto
Chapter 9.Professional and lay medical texts in the eighteenth century: A linguistic stylistic assessment
Irma Taavitsainen
Chapter 10.The symptom comes of age: Sign semantics from the Late Middle to the Late Modern English
Jukka Tyrkkö
Chapter 11.LMEMT category descriptions
11.1General treatises and textbooks
Irma Taavitsainen
11.2Specific treatises
11.2aDiseases
Maura Ratia
11.2bMethods
Anu Lehto
Irma Taavitsainen
11.2cTherapeutic substances
Carla Suhr
Irma Taavitsainen
11.2dMidwifery
Päivi Pahta
11.3Medical recipe collections
Anu Lehto
Irma Taavitsainen
11.4Regimens and health guides
Carla Suhr
11.5Surgical and anatomical texts
Jukka Tyrkkö
11.6Public health
Anu Lehto
11.7Scientific journals:
Philosophical Transactions and the Edinburgh Medical Journal
Turo Hiltunen
11.8General periodical:
The Gentleman’s Magazine
Irma Taavitsainen
Chapter 12.Manual to the LMEMT corpus
Turo Hiltunen
Jukka Tyrkkö
Primary data: Catalogue of corpus texts
Other primary sources
References
Name Index
LMEMT Index
