Frances Burney and the Doctors

Patient Narratives Then and Now

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John Wiltshire

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Frances Burney is primarily known as a novelist and playwright, but in recent years there has been an increased interest in the medical writings found within her private letters and journals. John Wiltshire advocates Burney as the unconscious pioneer of the modern genre of pathography, or the illness narrative. Through her dramatic accounts of distinct medical events, such as her own infamous operation without anaesthetic, to those she witnessed, including the 'madness' of George III and the inoculation of her son against smallpox, Burney exposes the ethical issues and conflicts between patients and doctors. Her accounts are linked to a range of modern narratives in which similar events occur in the changed conditions of the public hospital. The genre that Burney initiated continues to make an important contribution to our understanding of medical practice in the modern world.

Author Biography:

John Wiltshire is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Victoria. He specialises in later eighteenth-century literature and is the author of among other books Samuel Johnson in the Medical World: The Doctor and the Patient (Cambridge, 1991), Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health (Cambridge, 1992) and The Hidden Jane Austen (Cambridge, 2014).

Release date NZ

October 24th, 2019

Author

John Wiltshire

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises; 4 Tables, unspecified

Pages

220

Dimensions

158x235x17

ISBN-13

9781108476362

Product ID

29773295

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