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Published in: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 3/2020

01-09-2020 | Review Essay

John Wiltshire, Frances Burney and the doctors: Patient narratives, then and now (United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Author: Paul A. Komesaroff

Published in: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry | Issue 3/2020

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Abstract

This review essay examines the emergence of the patient narrative or “pathography” in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in relation to the great cultural, epistemological, and ethical transformations that enabled the formation of modern medicine. John Wiltshire’s book provides an historical overview of this complex process, as well as laying the basis for a contemporary critique of some of its key assumptions.
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Metadata
Title
John Wiltshire, Frances Burney and the doctors: Patient narratives, then and now (United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Author
Paul A. Komesaroff
Publication date
01-09-2020
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Published in
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry / Issue 3/2020
Print ISSN: 1176-7529
Electronic ISSN: 1872-4353
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-09985-8

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