STEP - Science and Technology in the European Periphery

Medicine and narration in the eighteenth century
Ed. Sophie Vasset

How did doctors argue in eighteenth-century medical pamphlet wars? How
literary, or clinical, is Diderot’s depiction of mad nuns? What is at
stake in the account of a cataract operation at the beginning of Jean-
Paul’s novel 'Hesperus'? In this pioneering volume, contributors extend
current research at the intersection of medicine and literature by
examining the overlapping narrative strategies in the writings of
French, British and German novelists and doctors.

SVEC 2013:04, ISBN 978-0-7294-1065-6, viii+260 pages, 1 ill., £65 /
€85 / $115