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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine. The first book of Homers Ilias recounts the plague that swept the camp of the Achaeans. While this instance concerns a full-length book, it is the aphorism that is of greater importance as a literary technique for the dissemination of medical knowledge, from the Corpus Hippocraticum of antiquity until the Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis (1715) by Herman Boerhaave. In addition, the subject of illness and its impact on mankind was explored by great numbers of poetic scholars and scholarly poets.This collection offers fourteen articles which all highlight the relation between disease and literature. It entails a first-ever overview of Dutch-language research in this field, whereby the literary and cultural functions of medical knowledge and the poetics of medical and literary writing are in the focus. The first-ever overview on the topic illness and literature in the Dutch speaking literature from the Middle Ages until the 21th century Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine. The first book of Homers Ilias recounts the plague that swept the camp of the Achaeans. While this instance concerns a full-length book, it is the aphorism that is of greater importance as a literary technique for the dissemination of medical knowledge, from the Corpus Hippocraticum of antiquity until the Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis (1715) by Herman Boerhaave. In addition, the subject of illness and its impact on mankind was explored by great numbers of poetic scholars and scholarly poets.This collection offers fourteen articles which all highlight the relation between disease and literature. It entails a first-ever overview of Dutch-language research in this field, whereby the literary and cultural functions of medical knowledge and the poetics of medical and literary writing are in the focus. The first-ever overview on the topic illness and literature in the Dutch speaking literature from the Middle Ages until the 21th century Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.