Liberating Medicine, 1720-1835

During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and literature during the Enlightenment.

Tristanne Connolly, Steve Clark

Acknowledgements, Contributors, List of Figures, Introduction, I. Spiritual Sickness and Hypochondria, II.Health and Emancipation, III.Madness, IV. Anatomized and Aestheticized Bodies, V. Birth, Notes, Works Cited, Index