Editors:
- Broad temporal scope - examines paratexts from medieval to present day
- Examines a rich variety of paratexts
- Opens up wider scholarship into medical paratexts, spanning literary studies, pragmatics, and the medical humanities
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PLSM)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Production, Reception, and Use
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Front Matter
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AuthorityAuthority , Access, and Dissemination
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Front Matter
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AuthorityAuthority , Access, and Dissemination
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of York, York, UK
Hannah C. Tweed
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University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Diane G. Scott
About the editors
Diane G. Scott is the Research Associate for the AHRC Digital Transformations Theme and teaches in the department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. She received her PhD on late medieval book history from the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on fifteenth and sixteenth century literacy and literary culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
Book Subtitle: Dissecting the Page
Editors: Hannah C. Tweed, Diane G. Scott
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73426-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73425-5Published: 25 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08786-9Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73426-2Published: 15 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6435
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 178
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Medieval Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, History of Science