Description
| Product ID: | 9781108441308 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600–1700 |
| Authors: | Author: Lyn Bennett |
| Page Count: | 211 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy of language, Philosophy of language, Literature: history and criticism, History, Social and cultural history, History of medicine, Literature: history & criticism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Social & cultural history, History of medicine, English, c 1600 to c 1700 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Concerned with rhetoric's role in shaping knowledge, culture, and society, this book shows how writers of both sexes engaged the discourse of learned medicine. Will appeal to students and researchers of early modern authors as well as those interested in the histories of gender, medicine, and rhetoric. How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians'' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole enterprise of learned medicine was, in large measure, facilitated by an intensely classical education that included extensive training in rhetoric, and that this rhetorical training is ultimately responsible for the achievement of professional dominance. Bennett examines previously unexplored connections among writers and genres as well as competing livelihoods and classes. Engaging the histories of rhetoric, medicine, literature, and culture throughout, she goes on to focus specifically on the work of women who professed as well as practiced medicine. Pointing to some of the ways women''s writing shapes realities of body, mind, and spirit as it negotiates social, cultural, and professional ideologies of gender, this book offers an important corrective to some long-held beliefs about women''s role in early modern discourse. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-04-01 |
