Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern

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 commu...

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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-697082025-03-17T10:24:56Z Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern Tweed, Hannah Scott, Diane medical paratexts; graphic communication; medieval; modern thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFJ Other graphic or visual art forms bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AF Art forms::AFJ Other graphic art forms 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. 2021-05-18T02:04:01Z 2021-05-18T02:04:01Z 2021-05-17T09:53:25Z 2018 book OCN: 1040612528 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48635 9783319734262 9783319734255 9783030087869 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69708 eng Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine open access Springer Nature 10.1007/978-3-319-73426-2 10.1007/978-3-319-73426-2 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a Chapter 9 “Nonsense Rides Piggyback on Sensible Things” 9783319734262 9783319734255 9783030087869 178 Cham open access
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Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
title Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
title_full Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
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title_short Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
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topic medical paratexts; graphic communication; medieval; modern
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topic_facet medical paratexts; graphic communication; medieval; modern
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