Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern: Dissecting The Page (1st ed. 2018) (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)

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Synopsis
This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as the apparatus of graphic communication: title pages, prefaces, illustrations, marginalia, and publishing details which act as mediators between text and reader. Discussing the development of medical paratexts across scribal, print and digital media, the collection spans the medieval period to the twenty-first century. Dissecting the Page is structured in two thematic sections, underpinned by a shared examination of ideas of medical and lay readership and a history of reader response. The first section focuses on the production, reception, and use of medical texts. The second section analyses the role and significance of authority, access, and dissemination in discussions of health, medicine, and illness, for both lay and medical readerships.
Copyright:
2018

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ISBN-13:
9783319734262
Related ISBNs:
9783319734255
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
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Springer
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Science, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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Edited by:
Hannah C. Tweed
Edited by:
Diane G. Scott

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