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

It has become a truism that we all think in the narrative mode, both in everyday life and in science. But what does this mean precisely? Scholars tend to use th

First published in 1993, Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century analyses the close interplay of medicine and literature by paying special attention

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