The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 184894299
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Legenda (Research Monographs in French Studies)
- ISBN
- 978-1-781885-60-4
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is the principal output of an AHRC Leadership Fellowship and the culmination of four years of sustained research. This in-depth study of the multifaceted language of disease develops a critical medical humanities methodology of ‘entanglements’ to examine the influence of scientific, public health, metaphorical and religious language in an extensive corpus including twenty novels, short stories, plays and poems from 1846-1905, in addition to writers’ journals and correspondence. Research on letters, treatises, lectures and public health pamphlets by leading scientists from 1831-1904 required two extended periods of study in the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, funded by the British Academy.
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- Non-English
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