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An account of...William Cullen: John Thomson and the making of a medical biography
No full textJohn Thomson’s An Account of the Life, Lectures and Writings of William Cullen (1832; 1859) remains a primary source for the career of the most influential academic physician in eighteenth-century Scotland and is also a significant work of medical history. But this multi-authored text, begun around 1810 by the academic surgeon, John Thomson, but only completed in 1859 by Dr David Craigie, has its own complex history. This chapter addresses what this history can reveal about the development of medical biography as a literary genre. It argues that the Account is a hybrid work shaped by a complex array of practical, domestic, intellectual, and professional pressures, as Thomson, in seeking to bolster his own career, was caught between the demands of Cullen’s children for a traditional “Life” and his own more theoretical and socio-cultural interests
The Eighteenth Century
No full textThis chapter has three sections: 1. General and Prose; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry. Section 1 is by Eliza O’Brien; section 2 is by Elles Smallegoor and Sandro Jung; section 3 is by David E. Shuttleton
The Eighteenth Century
No full textThis chapter has four sections: 1. General and Prose, 2. The Novel, 3. Poetry and 4. Drama. Section 1 is by Eliza O’Brien; section 2 is by Sandro Jung; section 3 is by David Shuttleton; and section 4 is by Chrisy Denni
The Eighteenth Century
No full textThis chapter has four sections: 1. Prose and General; 2. The Novel; 3. Poetry; 4. Drama. Section 1 is by Steven Lynn; section 2 is by Elles Smallegoor; section 3 is by David Shuttleton; section 4 is by Marjean Purinton
The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
No full textThe Cullen Project is a collaboration between the Medical Humanities Research Centre, School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE), funded by a major AHRC research grant award. It presents a publicly accessible, online scholarly edition of one of the most important archives of eighteenth-century medical "consultation letters".
The folder contains the XML files of all the letters available at http://cullenproject.ac.uk/
Principal Investigator: Dr David E. Shuttleton
Systems Developer: Mark Herraghty
Research Associate: Dr Jenny Bann
Editors/transcribers:
Dr James Butler
Rebecca DeWald
Dr Marianne Gilchrist
Dr Johanna Green
Dr Luca Guariento
Stephen Hall
Dr Eilidh Kane
Felicity Maxwell
Lauren McClelland
Dr Mary Rambaran-Olm
Gillian Weir
Dr Vivien William
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