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OverviewHow 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lyn Bennett (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9781108425193ISBN 10: 1108425194 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 08 February 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews'Lyn Bennett's … detailed new book offers an original perspective on the development of the medical profession in the seventeenth century.' Aurélie Griffin, Modern Language Review 'Lyn Bennett's ... detailed new book offers an original perspective on the development of the medical profession in the seventeenth century.' Aurelie Griffin, Modern Language Review 'Lyn Bennett's ... detailed new book offers an original perspective on the development of the medical profession in the seventeenth century.' Aurelie Griffin, Modern Language Review 'Lyn Bennett's ... detailed new book offers an original perspective on the development of the medical profession in the seventeenth century.' Aurelie Griffin, Modern Language Review Author InformationLyn Bennett is an associate professor of English at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. Her interest in rhetoric, writing, and medicine informs her teaching as well as her research. She is the author of Women Writing of Divinest Things: Rhetoric in the Poetry of Pembroke, Wroth, and Lanyer (2004) and her work also appears in publications as diverse as Christianity and Literature, Genre, and the Journal of Medical Humanities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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