The volume examines the interrelationships between the history of medicine and literature from the 17th until the 19th centuries. The papers in the volume analyse these interrelationships using the styles of medical and literary texts, which show how the dimensions of knowledge and of representation determine each other for example in the case of narrative structures in medical case histories or a diagnostic narrative stance in a novel.

Autorentext

Nicolas Pethes, FernUniversität in Hagen; Sandra Pott, Universität Stuttgart.