La narration dans les communications médicales du XVIIIe siècle : description des patients et des pathologies, part des arguments religieux dans la description des opérations chirurgicales ou des procédés médicaux, stratégies narratives et argumentation. En exemple, la description par Diderot des nonnes atteintes de pathologies démentielles. ©Electre 2024
How did doctors argue in eighteenth-century médical 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 carrent research at the intersection of medicine and literature by examining the overlapping narrative stratégies in the writings of both novelists and doctors.
Focusing on a wide variety of sources, an interdisciplinary team of researchers explores the nature and function of narration as an underlying principle of such writing. From a reading of correspondence between doctors as a means of continuing professional education, to the use of inoculation as a plotting device, or an examination of Diderot's physiological approach to mental illness in La Religieuse, contributors highlight :
Paru le : 22/04/2013
Thématique : Essais et théories - Dictionnaire
Auteur(s) : Non précisé.
Éditeur(s) :
Voltaire Foundation
Collection(s) : Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century
Contributeur(s) : Directeur de publication : Sophie Vasset
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-0-7294-1065-6
EAN13 : 9780729410656
Reliure : Broché
Pages : VII-260
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Poids: 0 g
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