Tension and narrative : autobiographies of illness and therapeutic legitimacy in eighteenth-century French and English medical works
- This article discusses the function of tension in autobiographies written by eighteenth-century doctors George Cheyne, Francis Fuller, Claude Revillon, and the Viscount de Puysegur. It studies how their rhetorical strategies stir tensions in readers through the narration of their own periods of infirmity and search for a remedy. The descriptions of their recoveries offer resolution, legitimate their medical practices, and help diffuse their works. Through the staging of these reversals, the authors suggest a shift in the way the role of medical doctors was perceived as well as a fundamental change in their relationship to illness.
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| Author: | Sabine Arnaud |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-514040 |
| URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-01/arnaud_tension-and-narrative.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25620/ci-01_03 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-85132-616-1 |
| Parent Title (English): | Tension/Spannung / ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey. - Wien : Turia + Kant 2010. - (Cultural Inquiry ; 1) - ISBN 978-3-85132-616-1 |
| Publisher: | Turia + Kant |
| Place of publication: | Wien |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2019 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2019/10/16 |
| Tag: | Medizingeschichte Autobiography; History of medicine; Tension |
| GND Keyword: | Autobiografie; Medizin; Geschichte 1700-1800; Spannung |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 49 |
| Last Page: | 69 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 455251878 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |
