Communicating Medicine
This study investigates eighteenth-century medical writing, particularly concerning the elaboration and the communication of medicine in such reference works as universal dictionaries of arts and sciences, medical dictionaries, and handbooks. Most of the vernacular texts under scrutiny here were iss...
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| author | Elisabetta Lonati |
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| description | This study investigates eighteenth-century medical writing, particularly concerning the elaboration and the communication of medicine in such reference works as universal dictionaries of arts and sciences, medical dictionaries, and handbooks. Most of the vernacular texts under scrutiny here were issued in the second half of the century, a period in which the advancements in medical research, medical education and medical practice favoured the circulation of an expanding medical vocabulary and stimulated medical writing as a whole. A vast amount of reference works was produced for experts and non-experts alike: medical topics were common in social settings, in personal and communal letters, in specialised journals, in pamphlets and in magazines. All this unprecedented activity certainly contributed to the vernacularisation, and the dissemination of medicine in different kinds of works and different text types. The texts examined in the study are representative of their authors’ effort to expand medical knowledge and to define medicine as an independent science based on strict observation, as well as to establish intelligibility within and outside the disciplinary discourse community. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-435882024-03-31T13:08:33Z Communicating Medicine Elisabetta Lonati R5-920 english medicine language communication thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing This study investigates eighteenth-century medical writing, particularly concerning the elaboration and the communication of medicine in such reference works as universal dictionaries of arts and sciences, medical dictionaries, and handbooks. Most of the vernacular texts under scrutiny here were issued in the second half of the century, a period in which the advancements in medical research, medical education and medical practice favoured the circulation of an expanding medical vocabulary and stimulated medical writing as a whole. A vast amount of reference works was produced for experts and non-experts alike: medical topics were common in social settings, in personal and communal letters, in specialised journals, in pamphlets and in magazines. All this unprecedented activity certainly contributed to the vernacularisation, and the dissemination of medicine in different kinds of works and different text types. The texts examined in the study are representative of their authors’ effort to expand medical knowledge and to define medicine as an independent science based on strict observation, as well as to establish intelligibility within and outside the disciplinary discourse community. 2021-02-11T10:13:17Z 2021-02-11T10:13:17Z 2017-05-29 15:20:01 2017 book 22178 9788867056057 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/43588 eng Di/Segni image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International http://www.ledizioni.it/prodotto/elisabetta-lonati-communicating-medicine/ http://www.ledizioni.it/stag/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Lonati_web.pdf Ledizioni cb2a1db5-5754-4ab6-bb64-d635458e30c5 9788867056057 165 open access |
| spellingShingle | R5-920 english medicine language communication thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing Elisabetta Lonati Communicating Medicine |
| title | Communicating Medicine |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Communicating Medicine |
| title_short | Communicating Medicine |
| title_sort | communicating medicine |
| topic | R5-920 english medicine language communication thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing |
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