Late Modern English Medical Texts
Writing medicine in the eighteenth century
Including the LMEMT Corpus
The eighteenth century in medicine is a fallow period lying between the innovations of the Royal Society (1662–) with its new ways of doing science and the nineteenth-century achievements of clinical and laboratory medicine. The period deserves more attention, as the seeds of some modern approaches, like statistics leading to probabilities, date from this century. This volume provides a comprehensive description of the main developments in 1700–1800. Its main focus is on language use in context, with stylistic variation according to genres, authors and audiences. The volume is interdisciplinary: the chapters chart changes and continuities and draw on corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, history of medicine, digital humanities and computer science, and all studies are based on the corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT). In addition, the volume contains a detailed description of corpus categories focusing on chronological coverage of the texts, criteria for inclusion, discourse forms, and background facts. The volume concludes with a Manual of the corpus, providing information about annotation conventions and examples of how the corpus can be used.
The book is accompanied by a CD-rom containing the corpus. The corpus consists of files in XML and TXT format, which can be used in various corpus research software programs.
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. ix–x
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Preface
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Conventions used in this book | pp. xiii–13
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List of abbreviations | pp. xv–15
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List of contributors | pp. xvii–xix
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Chapter 1. Towards new knowledge: The corpus of Late Modern English Medical TextsTuro Hiltunen and Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 1–16
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Chapter 2. Sociohistorical and cultural context of Late Modern English Medical TextsIrma Taavitsainen, Peter Murray Jones and Turo Hiltunen | pp. 17–30
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Chapter 3. Topics of eighteenth-century medical writing with triangulation of methods: LMEMT and the underlying realityIrma Taavitsainen, Gerold Schneider and Peter Murray Jones | pp. 31–74
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Chapter 4. Regimens and their readers in eighteenth-century EnglandDavid Gentilcore | pp. 75–88
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Chapter 5. Medical case reports in Late Modern EnglishAnu Lehto and Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 89–112
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Chapter 6. Household medicine and recipe culture in eighteenth-century BritainAlun Withey | pp. 113–128
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Chapter 7. Polite society language practices: Letters to the Editor in The Gentleman’s MagazineIrma Taavitsainen | pp. 129–144
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Chapter 8. Changing portrayals of medicine and patients in eighteenth-century medical writing: Lexical bundles in public health, methods, and case studiesAnu Lehto | pp. 145–172
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Chapter 9. Professional and lay medical texts in the eighteenth century: A linguistic stylistic assessmentIrma Taavitsainen | pp. 173–198
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Chapter 10. The symptom comes of age: Sign semantics from the Late Middle to the Late Modern EnglishJukka Tyrkkö | pp. 199–228
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Chapter 11. LMEMT category descriptions
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11.1. General treatises and textbooksIrma Taavitsainen | pp. 231–238
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11.2. Specific treatises
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11.2a. DiseasesMaura Ratia | pp. 243–249
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11.2b. MethodsAnu Lehto and Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 251–260
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11.2c. Therapeutic substancesCarla Suhr and Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 261–270
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11.2d. MidwiferyPäivi Pahta | pp. 271–278
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11.3. Medical recipe collectionsAnu Lehto and Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 279–288
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11.4. RegimensCarla Suhr | pp. 289–297
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11.5. Surgical and anatomical textsJukka Tyrkkö | pp. 299–306
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11.6. Public healthAnu Lehto | pp. 307–315
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11.7. Scientific periodicals: The Philosophical Transactions and the Edinburgh Medical JournalTuro Hiltunen | pp. 317–320
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11.8. General periodical: The Gentleman’s MagazineIrma Taavitsainen | pp. 327–336
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Chapter 12. Manual to the LMEMT corpusTuro Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö | pp. 337–358
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Primary data: Catalogue of corpus texts | pp. 359–396
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Other primary sources | pp. 397–400
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References | pp. 401–420
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Subject Index | pp. 425–432
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