Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600-1700 / Lyn Bennett.
Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600-1700 / Lyn Bennett.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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G 2019/1414
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English
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xiv, 197 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Introduction: Their plausible rhetoric -- "Another mans profession": Physicians and clerics -- "Onely the learned": Physicians, empirics, and women -- "An eloquent tongue": physicians and patients -- "Publishing those truthes": Women and affliction -- "Hard words and rhetoricall phrases": women and...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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England
Date Published
2018.
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"Disputing the London College, chemical physician George Thomson faults those who persuade patients 'willingly to resign their Lives up to their Judgements' while denying the many 'miscarriages, misdemeanours, and gross aberrations in Physick.' The 'fair pretences' of 'these Galenists,' Thomson argues, cannot be eradicated by even 'the best of Rhet...
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Rhetoric, medicine, and the woman writer, 1600-1700 / Lyn Bennett.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194) and index.
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G 2019/1414
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74VKVyyG604Z
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1108441300
9781108425193 (hardback)
1108425194
9781108441308
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610.941
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991024235804402626
