TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tweed,Hannah
AU  - Scott,Diane
AU  - Scott,Diane
AU  - Tweed,Hannah
TI  - Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern: Dissecting the Page
T2  - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
SN  - 9783319734262
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - Medicine and Nursing
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Other graphic art forms
KW  - Other graphic or visual art forms
KW  - medical paratexts; graphic communication; medieval; modern
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as the apparatus of graphic communication: title pages, prefaces, illustrations, marginalia, and publishing details which act as mediators between text and reader. Discussing the development of medical paratexts across scribal, print and digital media, the collection spans the medieval period to the twenty-first century. Dissecting the Page is structured in two thematic sections, underpinned by a shared examination of ideas of medical and lay readership and a history of reader response. The first section focuses on the production, reception, and use of medical texts. The second section analyses the role and significance of authority, access, and dissemination in discussions of health, medicine, and illness, for both lay and medical readerships
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48635
ER  -