This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relat

The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central

This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and frami

Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examini

This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates th