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Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The contributors take an informed historicist approach in examining the cultural, geographical, political, and other circumstances enabling the dissemination of distinctively Scottish medico-literary discourses.

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Coyer and Shuttleton, by bringing together psychiatrists, literary scholars, historians, librarians and doctors, illuminate a neglected corner of medical humanities. [...] The virtue of this book is its ability to show how perspectives interwove and advanced as - and because - they were articulated together through contemporary rhetoric. [...] The mark of a succesful text lies within its pages, and in the vistas it opens for research. Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 achieves such a success. - Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming), in: Scottish Literary Review, vol. 7 no. 2 (Dec. 2015). Like many such collections, some of the transitions between sections can feel a little bumpy, but the standard of individual essays is generally high. Inevitably there is much more work to do in this field, and many questions are raised as well as resolved here [...] overall this book provides a valuable and unique resource for anyone interested in the Scottish Enlightenment's literary and medical history. - Clark Lawlor (Northumbria University, UK), in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 89, Number 3, Fall 2015, pp. 603-605.

Coyer and Shuttleton, by bringing together psychiatrists, literary scholars, historians, librarians and doctors, illuminate a neglected corner of medical humanities. [...] The virtue of this book is its ability to show how perspectives interwove and advanced as - and because - they were articulated together through contemporary rhetoric. [...] The mark of a succesful text lies within its pages, and in the vistas it opens for research. Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 achieves such a success. Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming), in: Scottish Literary Review, vol. 7 no. 2 (Dec. 2015). Like many such collections, some of the transitions between sections can feel a little bumpy, but the standard of individual essays is generally high. Inevitably there is much more work to do in this field, and many questions are raised as well as resolved here [...] overall this book provides a valuable and unique resource for anyone interested in the Scottish Enlightenment's literary and medical history. Clark Lawlor (Northumbria University, UK), in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 89, Number 3, Fall 2015, pp. 603-605.

Like many such collections, some of the transitions between sections can feel a little bumpy, but the standard of individual essays is generally high. Inevitably there is much more work to do in this field, and many questions are raised as well as resolved here [...] overall this book provides a valuable and unique resource for anyone interested in the Scottish Enlightenment's literary and medical history. Clark Lawlor (Northumbria University, UK), in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 89, Number 3, Fall 2015, pp. 603-605.

Coyer and Shuttleton, by bringing together psychiatrists, literary scholars, historians, librarians and doctors, illuminate a neglected corner of medical humanities. [...] The virtue of this book is its ability to show how perspectives interwove and advanced as - and because - they were articulated together through contemporary rhetoric. [...] The mark of a succesful text lies within its pages, and in the vistas it opens for research. Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726-1832 achieves such a success. Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming), in: Scottish Literary Review, vol. 7 no. 2 (Dec. 2015). Like many such collections, some of the transitions between sections can feel a little bumpy, but the standard of individual essays is generally high. Inevitably there is much more work to do in this field, and many questions are raised as well as resolved here [...] overall this book provides a valuable and unique resource for anyone interested in the Scottish Enlightenment's literary and medical history. Clark Lawlor (Northumbria University, UK), in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 89, Number 3, Fall 2015, pp. 603-605.

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Megan J. Coyer is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Medical Humanities within the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. David E. Shuttleton is Reader in Literature and Medical Culture within the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow.

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