Medical Writing

Medical Writing Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Colonial America
  • Benjamin Rush from the Perspective of the Twentieth Century
  • Early American Immunology: As Formulated by the Reverend Cotton Mather of Boston, 1725
  • Introduction
• Honeyed Words: Bernard Mandeville and Medical Discourse
• Criticism: Medieval Writing
• Criticism: Sexuality
  • Renaissance Moralizing about Syphilis and Prevention
  • The Medicines of Medieval and Renaissance Europe as a Source of Medicines for Today
  • Satiric Representation of Venereal Disease: The Restoration Versus the Eighteenth-Century Model
  • Medicine, the Body and the Botanical Metaphor in Erotica
• Mirrors of Health and Treasures of Poor Men: The Uses of the Vernacular Medical Literature of Tudor England
• Further Reading