TY - BOOK
T1 - Communicating Medicine : British Medical Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Reference Works
AU - LONATI, ELISABETTA
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - This study investigates eighteenth-century medical writing, particularly concerning the elaboration and the communication of medicine in such reference works as universal dictionaries of arts and sciences, medical dictionaries, and handbooks. Most of the vernacular texts under scrutiny here were issued in the second half of the century, a period in which the advancements in medical research, medical education and medical practice favoured the circulation of an expanding medical vocabulary and stimulated medical writing as a whole. A vast amount of reference works was produced for experts and non-experts alike: medical topics were common in social settings, in personal and communal letters, in specialised journals, in pamphlets and in magazines. All this unprecedented activity certainly contributed to the vernacularisation, and the dissemination of medicine in different kinds of works and different text types. The texts examined in the study are representative of their authors’ effort to expand medical knowledge and to define medicine as an independent science based on strict observation, as well as to establish intelligibility within and outside the disciplinary discourse community.
AB - This study investigates eighteenth-century medical writing, particularly concerning the elaboration and the communication of medicine in such reference works as universal dictionaries of arts and sciences, medical dictionaries, and handbooks. Most of the vernacular texts under scrutiny here were issued in the second half of the century, a period in which the advancements in medical research, medical education and medical practice favoured the circulation of an expanding medical vocabulary and stimulated medical writing as a whole. A vast amount of reference works was produced for experts and non-experts alike: medical topics were common in social settings, in personal and communal letters, in specialised journals, in pamphlets and in magazines. All this unprecedented activity certainly contributed to the vernacularisation, and the dissemination of medicine in different kinds of works and different text types. The texts examined in the study are representative of their authors’ effort to expand medical knowledge and to define medicine as an independent science based on strict observation, as well as to establish intelligibility within and outside the disciplinary discourse community.
KW - medical writing
KW - eighteenth century
KW - reference works
KW - medical handbooks
KW - medical dictionary
KW - popularizing medicine
KW - medical vocabulary
KW - dissemination of medicine
KW - disciplinary discourse
KW - medical writing
KW - eighteenth century
KW - reference works
KW - medical handbooks
KW - medical dictionary
KW - popularizing medicine
KW - medical vocabulary
KW - dissemination of medicine
KW - disciplinary discourse
UR - https://iris.uniupo.it/handle/11579/117240
M3 - Book
SN - 9788867056057
VL - 20
BT - Communicating Medicine : British Medical Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Reference Works
PB - Ledizioni
ER -