This title provides an analysis of how literary fiction borrowed narratorial devices from medical texts and vice-versa.

How did doctors argue in eighteenth-century medical pamphlet wars? How literary, or clinical, is Diderot’s depiction of mad nuns? What is at stake in the acco

This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the

In the second half of the eighteenth century, celebrated Swiss physician Samuel Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) received over 1,200 medical consultation letters from

This work reflects on hypochondria as well as on the global functioning of the human mind and on the place of the patient/physician relationship in the wider or