Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600-1700

Physicians dominated the medical profession due to their classical education, which included training in rhetoric. Lyn Bennett's book explores the connections between writers, genres, livelihoods, and classes and focuses on the work of women who professed and practiced medicine. It offers an important corrective to long-held beliefs about women's role in early modern discourse.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 211 pages
\n Publication date: 01 April 2021
\n Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Physicians have historically dominated the medical profession, but Lyn Bennett questions the notion that scientific competence alone explains their ascendancy. Bennett argues that the entire enterprise of learned medicine was facilitated by a classical education that emphasized rhetoric training, which ultimately contributed to professional dominance. She explores previously uncharted connections between writers, genres, livelihoods, and classes, and delves into the work of women who professed and practiced medicine. By examining the ways in which women's writing shapes realities of the body, mind, and spirit as it negotiates social, cultural, and professional ideologies of gender, Bennett offers a significant corrective to long-held beliefs about women's roles in early modern discourse.

Physicians have historically dominated the medical profession, but Lyn Bennett questions the notion that scientific competence alone explains their ascendancy. Bennett argues that the entire enterprise of learned medicine was facilitated by a classical education that emphasized rhetoric training, which ultimately contributed to professional dominance. She explores previously uncharted connections between writers, genres, livelihoods, and classes, and delves into the work of women who professed and practiced medicine. By examining the ways in which women's writing shapes realities of the body, mind, and spirit as it negotiates social, cultural, and professional ideologies of gender, Bennett offers a significant corrective to long-held beliefs about women's roles in early modern discourse.

Physicians have historically dominated the medical profession, but Lyn Bennett questions the notion that scientific competence alone explains their ascendancy. Bennett argues that the entire enterprise of learned medicine was facilitated by a classical education that emphasized rhetoric training, which ultimately contributed to professional dominance. She explores previously uncharted connections between writers, genres, livelihoods, and classes, and delves into the work of women who professed and practiced medicine. By examining the ways in which women's writing shapes realities of the body, mind, and spirit as it negotiates social, cultural, and professional ideologies of gender, Bennett offers a significant corrective to long-held beliefs about women's roles in early modern discourse.

\n Weight: 320g\n
Dimension: 151 x 228 x 15 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781108441308\n \n