Writing Doctors

@helen189 @b_brighamm @Laur_Mainwaring We are thrilled with the amazing work of our contributors who made this project such a pleasure, & we hope that our treatment of diverse authors & cultural forms will shed new light on how they engaged with, undermined and shaped c18 & c19 medical discourse. 17!/16

@helen189 @b_brighamm @Laur_Mainwaring Finally, Allan Ingram’s Afterword highlights the project's resonance in our coronavirus moment, indicating how literary and cultural studies can shed light on medical matters including public health messaging, which in turn determines ideas about our bodies and communities. 16/16

Taking us beyond the human, Stephanie Howard-Smith’s essay, '‘Take physic, Pomp’: Writing Dog Doctors in Eighteenth-Century Britain', demonstrates the importance of veterinary information and (often sexist) mythology about the owners as well as the medics. 8/16

@ClarkLawlor1 @helen189 @KatieAske @LozzySullivan's chapter, ‘Studying in Solitude: Demythologising the Masculine Medical Monopoly with Jane Barker’s Galesia & Tobias Smollett’s Sagely’, asks who could participate in healthcare and its representation by examining the role of medical women in fiction. 7/16

@ClarkLawlor1 @helen189 @KatieAske .@ClarkLawlor1's ‘‘The very women read it’: Medical Self-Fashioning, Mythologies and (Mis)Information in George Cheyne M.D.’s Medical Writing’ shows the famous/infamous physician Cheyne's medical essays & treatises 'selling' the author as much as his methods. 6/16

Yess! Our @LeverhulmeTrust project's book, Myth & (Mis)information: Constructing Medical Practice & Practitioners in 18th- & 19th-Century English Literature and Culture, ed. by Allan Ingram, @ClarkLawlor1 & @helen189 is out now with @ManchesterUP! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526166821/ 1/16

@writingdocs I hope you will take a look at my new anthology, published by Kent State University Press and available now at your independent bookstores or on Amazon: "So Much More than a Headache: Understanding Migraine through Literature."

@KathyOShea1 Thank you, we will! Congratulations!

It has been amazing to work with our wonderful contributors – thank you for joining our project and let’s stay in touch! And we have more publications hopefully coming soon… writingdoctors.info/index.php

These essays highlight how poetry, letters, novels, drama, memoir, medical manuals, wax-works, & almanacs shaped & responded to the ever-changing needs of human bodies, and evidence a wide & complex network of c18 health providers traditional & otherwise.

& we are so pleased that our special issue of @JECSjournal, Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. by @historylitmed, Allan Ingram, & @helen189, is hot off the press, and much of it is open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17540208/2…