Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century English Literature and Culture

Ingram, Allan (Editor)/ Williams, Helen (Editor)/ Lawlor, Clark (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1526195429 / ISBN 13: 9781526195425

Published by Manchester Univ Pr, 2026

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1st edition. 312 pages. 9.21x6.14x9.21 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century English Literature and Culture
• Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526195429
• ISBN 13: 9781526195425
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.44 kilograms

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Synopsis

This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the novel, to shed light on the mythologisation and transmission of medical (mis)information through literature and popular culture. It analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, as well as information and beliefs, about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of this period, from early eighteenth-century household remedies to the late nineteenth-century concerns with vaccination that are still relevant today.

About the Author

Allan Ingram is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Northumbria
Clark Lawlor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Northumbria
Helen Williams is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Northumbria