Myth and (Mis)Information

Allan Ingram is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Northumbria Clark Lawlor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Northumbria Helen Williams is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Northumbria -- .

Introduction – Clark Lawlor and Helen Williams
1. “To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules”: Skincare in De Morbis Cutaneis (1714) – Katherine Aske
2. Dr John Arbuthnot’s Literary Treatment for False Learning, Pedantry, and Excess: from Physic to Metaphysics – John Baker
3. “The very women read it”: Medical Self-Fashioning, Mythologies and (Mis)Information in George Cheyne M.D.’s Medical Writings – Clark Lawlor
4. Studying in Solitude: Demythologising the Masculine Medical Monopoly with Jane Barker’s Galesia and Tobias Smollett’s Sagely – Laurence Sullivan
5. “Take physic, Pomp”: Imagining Dog Doctors in Eighteenth-Century Britain – Stephanie Howard-Smith
6. “A man of common understanding”: Venereal Disease, Myth, and Reading as a Protective Practice in Eighteenth-Century Britain – Declan Kavanagh
7. Sir Anthony Carlisle’s Gothic (Medical) Intervention: Carving the Criminal Body in The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey – Bethany Brigham
8. Mislabelling and the Medical Printer-Publisher: Demystifying the Ephemera of Elizabeth Rane Cox (1765-1841) – Helen Williams
9. The Uneasy Relationship between Traditional and Orthodox Medicine in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell – Barbara Witucki
10. Medical Men Recommend Them: Branded Medicines and the Myth of the Medical Moral Economy c. 1876-1880 – Laura Robson-Mainwaring
11. Dissecting Venus: Popular Consumption of Flap Anatomies, 1890–1910 – Jessica Dandona
12. “You taught us that which you knew not to be the truth”: The Anti-Vaccination Medical Doctor in Henry Rider Haggard’s Doctor Therne (1898) – Carlotta Fiammenghi
Afterword – Allan Ingram
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