文學理論/批評

Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600-1700
出版社： Cambridge University Press
書林書號：
30246164
作者：
Bennett, Lyn
定價：
3500
會員價：
$3325
ISBN：
9781108425193
出版年份：
2018
裝訂：
精裝
總頁數：
0
  • 本書介紹
How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole enterprise of learned medicine was, in large measure, facilitated by an intensely classical education that included extensive training in rhetoric, and that this rhetorical training is ultimately responsible for the achievement of professional dominance. Bennett examines previously unexplored connections among writers and genres as well as competing livelihoods and classes. Engaging the histories of rhetoric, medicine, literature, and culture throughout, she goes on to focus specifically on the work of women who professed as well as practiced medicine. Pointing to some of the ways women's writing shapes realities of body, mind, and spirit as it negotiates social, cultural, and professional ideologies of gender, this book offers an important corrective to some long-held beliefs about women's role in early modern discourse.
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