Frances Burney and the Doctors: Patient Narratives Then and Now
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Frances Burney is primarily known as a novelist and playwright, but in recent years there has been an increased interest in the medical writings found within her private letters and journals. John Wiltshire advocates Burney as the unconscious pioneer of the modern genre of pathography, or the illness narrative. Through her dramatic accounts of distinct medical events, such as her own infamous operation without anaesthetic, to those she witnessed,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1108476368
ISBN13:9781108476362
Release Date:December 2019
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:220 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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